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Praemium expands global SMA offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Praemium SMA enhanced its suite of international model portfolios with the addition of a Franklin Templeton offering. The Franklin Concentrated Global Equity ex Australia Portfolio is now available to investors via the platform. It enables investment ...

Link Fund Solutions chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
The chief executive of Link Fund Solutions has resigned to take on a new role with a $133 billion fund administrator. Andy Harrison has been appointed as the new chief executive of Mainstream Fund Services, Australia. Taking on the role in October ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Perhaps it's being drowned by the ongoing Trump/Xi "my tariff is bigger than yours" tit-for-tat, or the Trump/Stormy Daniels alleged dalliance, or the alleged Trump/FBI raid on the offices of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen... but whatever it ...

Active manager launches Aussie equities strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... ensure the strategy performs as designed (or intended) for investors, " Man Numeric's head of international strategies Ori Ben-Akiva said. Early takers of the strategy include Russell Investments and the firm will initially include it in the manager ...

Industry leaders join Prospa board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Two prominent female financial services executives have joined the board of online small business lender Prospa. Gail Pemberton and Fiona Trafford-Walker have been appointed as independent non-executive directors, while current director Greg Ruddock ...

CFSGAM model portfolios added to FirstWrap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Three separately managed accounts from Colonial First State Global Asset Management are now available exclusively on the FirstWrap platform. Users of FirstWrap can now access the CFSGAM Top 20 Index Portfolio, designed to achieve performance similar ...

Royal Commission to take "labyrinthine" advice legislation to task

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
In its background paper leading up to the financial advice inquiry on April 16, the Royal Commission has called out the "labyrinthine" regulatory regime in which the industry operates. The paper notes the current legislative framework for financial ...

MQA chief executive departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
The chief executive of Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) will resign as part of a finalised agreement to remove Macquarie as MQA's investment manager and rename the company. In November last year, MQA's board announced it would "pursue an internalisation ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Trump and Xi's game of tariff poker goes on. Whether it's Trump's "art of the deal" tactic or a true blue (fallacious) plan to make "America Great Again," only Trump knows - problem is, China's Supremo isn't blinking. To be sure, the prospect of an ...

Outsourcing driving advice client engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
Financial advice practices that outsource certain back-office functions save up to 60% in operational costs and are dedicating more time to clients. This is according to Virtual Business Partners (VBR) chief executive David Carney, who said advice firms ...