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Managed accounts forum unveils new format, adviser focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts is introducing an entirely new and innovative format in 2017, placing financial advisers front and centre of the one-day conference. Financial Standard launches a new program format called ...

Boutique appoints Equity Trustees as RE

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
A boutique fund manager has appointed Equity Trustees as responsible entity for two of its funds. Equity Trustees will oversee two of Melbourne-based Australian equities fund manager JCP Investment Partners' retail funds: the small companies long-short ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
UniSuper, the $60 billion fund for Australia's higher education and research sector, is appointing an active strategy for its once passively managed environmental investment option. Under this important shift management of the Global Environmental Opportunities ...

Nikko AM to disrupt with acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
Nikko Asset Management acquired a minority share in a New York-based specialist investment house with ambitions to develop more innovative investment solutions. As a stakeholder in ARK Investment Management, Nikko AM has obtained exclusivity to provide ...

Advice too pricey for poor Australians

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
About 75% of Australians have not engaged a financial adviser in the last five years, with many believing it's too expensive and they don't earn enough to justify doing so. The majority of Australians who did visit a financial adviser in the last five ...

Blue Sky partners for property investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... student accommodation, representing an important step toward achieving net zero carbon buildings." "The CEFC has a clear focus on investing in clean energy in industry sectors with the strongest potential for decarbonisation. We have already committed ...

Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... but I think we do need a more equal treatment of income in the tax system," he said. While young Australians were the key focus, the big divide between men and women in retirement is also causing alarm, with men having almost double the superannuation ...

Advisers searching for LRBA answers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
Regulatory changes to limited recourse borrowing arrangements have been advisers' primary concern over the past quarter, according to BT Advice Technical research. Advisers' queries focused on two key issues: first, the proposal to combine outstanding ...

New portfolio manager at IOOF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... his experience will help strengthen IOOF's high-calibre and award-winning investment management team. He added the firms' focus is remaining firmly on providing superior investment returns for investors through its premium, fully-active IOOF MultiMix ...

Industry fund and wealth manager finalise integration

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... development of the investment strategy function. "Michael is heading back into funds management to progress his long held focus of building out his real return strategy for a broader client base," Graham said. Winchester joined StatePlus from Select ...