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MLC Asset Management grows managed accounts offering

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... model portfolios capture the return opportunities of active management, and the value model portfolios manage costs through select passive exposures, providing clients with choice. MLC general manager of direct capabilities and specialist investment ...

Moody's RMS appoints regional managing director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
Moody's Analytics has appointed Andrew Hare managing director, Asia Pacific for its RMS business. Hare joins from Aon's insurance advisory business Aon Inpoint where he was managing director and head of the Asia business. In total, he spent 17 years ...

UBS launches small cap strategy in Australia

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
... "This strategy benefits from our global team of portfolio managers and analysts who conduct in-depth company research to select our pool of diverse and innovative companies." UBS country head of asset management Australia and New Zealand Alison Telfer ...

Monochrome obtains crypto asset AFSL

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
Monochrome Asset Management has joined a select few Australian asset managers receiving authorisation under an AFSL to offer retail investors fully regulated and direct insured exposure to crypto assets. Monochrome's responsible entity partner, Vasco ...

HESTA awards major global equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
Having won an extensive tender process, a Sydney-based fund manager will oversee a $1 billion global equities allocation for the industry fund. Antipodes Partners' Global Long Strategy has been selected by HESTA for the mandate, citing the investment ...

A solution to active fund underperformance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
New analysis by VanEck questions why so many investors continue to invest in active funds, saying underperformance by active managers is not a recent phenomenon. According to the SPIVA scorecard produced by the S&P Dow Jones Indices, over the last 15 ...

HESTA, ISPT ink first direct healthcare property deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
HESTA and ISPT have invested $140 million to develop a medical office building in Melbourne, their first direct property acquisition in the healthcare and life sciences sector. ISPT and HESTA as mandate partner will co-develop an on-hospital-campus ...

QIC braces against recession risks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
As the manager of the Queensland government's long-term financial interests and a quasi-sovereign wealth fund, QIC can avoid the painful APRA performance test. This is a tremendous advantage for Allison Hill, QIC's state chief investment officer ...

ASIC flags 'significant' IDR compliance issues at super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
An analysis of close to 50,000 complaints made to super funds has found some trustees are failing to adequately record and respond to member complaints. ASIC is currently undertaking surveillance of super funds' internal dispute resolution processes ...

Review of ASIC funding model begins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... pressures within certain sub-sectors, including financial advisers being lumped with footing the bill for the misconduct of a select few institutions. The newly released scope of review outlines that consideration and where appropriate recommendations ...