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WTW launches insto platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Willis Towers Watson has launched a platform that aims to clean up operational complexities facing investment managers and disrupt the world of institutional investing. The Asset Management Exchange or 'AMX' provides a centralised back-office and standardised ...

Industry fund teams with Challenger on retirement

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... announcing record annuity sales of $2.2 billion in its half-year results, Challenger has partnered with a number of investment managers to develop a retirement product for Australian retirees including an annuities partnership with BT Panorama; white-labelling ...

Investment manager appoints head of machine learning

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... visualisation of complex data. "We believe that machine learning techniques present an opportunity for discretionary investment managers, providing them with analytical tools to complement, and further enhance, their decision making processes," Man GLG ...

Think carefully before internalising investment: PwC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... Yes or No?, PwC notes while there may be many good reasons for Australian superannuation funds to insource investment managers, there are various issues and complexities that need to be carefully explored. "Over the last few years one of the more interesting ...

Investment management industry needs overhaul: CFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... inflection point, urging leaders to transform business models and adopt new skills or else risk future success. Investment managers must also do more to build trust with investors, while at the same time increase benefits to society, the latest CFA Institute ...

Industry fund continues in-house investment expansion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... Cbus with more than 25 years' experience in cash and fixed income roles with international and Australian investment managers including Vianova, Perennial and UBS. In a statement he said he is pleased to be joining a fund like Cbus that is "committed ...

Responsible investing demand unstoppable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... market and appetite for responsible investing in general will only fall in line with global trends. But what investment managers need to be aware of is the greater reporting and disclosure requirements associated with responsible investing practices ...

Super trustees need better vigilance: APRA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... goes beyond just looking at net investment returns." Rowell spoke alongside ASIC senior executive leader, investment managers and superannuation, Ged Fitzpatrick at a session chaired by head of policy at AustralianSuper and deputy chair of AIST, Louise ...

PIMCO unitholders approve $10bn RE transaction

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... by what is in the best interests of investors in a fund." It's worth noting that part of the reason global investment managers with the requisite domestic footprint tend to take RE in-house is because RE itself is a particularly Australian concept - ...

BTIM builds out multi-asset team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... promotion of Michael and Rachel to co-lead the fund is a testament to this; both are highly capable, experienced investment managers."