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Class ups its SMSF stake

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... product totaled 110,614. The firm said in addition to strong growth in sales of Class Super, there has also been increasing interest in Class' non-SMSF solution, Class Portfolio. The latter had about 2000 billable portfolios as at 30 June. Class chief ...

Schroders joins exchange-quoted managed fund game

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... very low protection from certain risks and, overall, little true diversification," Doyle said. "With historically low interest rates around the world, investors need to make some changes - so they can be far more dynamic in their management of asset ...

Standard Life appoints RI analysts

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
Standard Life Investments has appointed two responsible investment analysts. Marc Brammer joins Standard Life from Inflection Point Capital Management, where he was a senior adviser for research and data management. Prior to that, he was an independent ...

NAS launches ESG reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
NAB Asset Servicing has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) insight reporting service, allowing clients to assess and monitor a range of ESG metrics. The service provides the firm's asset servicing clients including superannuation ...

Court approves OneVue merger meeting

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
The Federal Court has made orders approving the meeting of Diversa shareholders to vote on a merger with OneVue. As previously reported in Financial Standard, OneVue will acquire all of Diversa's ordinary shares. The combined business will have a market ...

Hunter Hall delivers profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Hunter Hall delivered an 86.8% boost in statutory after-tax profit to $7.8 million in the year to 30 June 2016. This was driven by major gains in investment income and performance fees - even if funds under management only increased slightly by 1.9% ...

BlackRock publishes staff gender split

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... in Banking and Finance chief executive Amanda Dobbie said: "We have seen over the last 12 to 18 months a significant interest by investment managers in joining WiBF and setting up internal diversity committees to start to address the reasons for the ...

SMSF trustees increasing use of planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... "This year we have also seen an investment strategy review and identifying undervalued assets as topics of increased interest for trustees, as well as selection of ETFs. In the current environment of market uncertainty and softer expectations for domestic ...

Investment manager announces takeover offer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... unconditional on-market cash offer for all of Richfield's shares at 34 cents per share. Mercantile currently holds a 27% interest in Richfield. Richfield said it advised shareholders to take no action in relation to the offer and that its board will ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... just a little bit of prompting they are very interested - and a lot of people understand they need to take a greater interest but aren't quite sure how and where to start," Clancy says. The Qantas Super chief executive says this experience reconfirms ...