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Franklin Templeton to build advanced financial AI platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Franklin Templeton announced it is working with Microsoft to build an advanced financial AI platform. The global investment manager said the partnership marked a significant step toward transforming the financial services industry. The platform will ...

Aussies underestimate life insurance's importance: Investment Trends

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... considering Income Protection insurance, the impact of a trusted brand cannot be understated," Guiamatsia said. Regarding client satisfaction and client engagement, Zurich leads with the highest client NPS, while NRMA boasts the greatest client satisfaction ...

AMP Advice partners with BlackRock and Lonsec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... monitor their holdings, performance, and access trade notices and market commentaries that can be white-labelled for their client base, AMP said. The portfolios use BlackRock's multi-asset investment expertise and global custom managed portfolio technology ...

Antipodes acquires boutique manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
Antipodes has acquired a fund manager specialising in Asian equity and fixed income strategies that has about $170 million in assets under management. Premium Asia Funds Management is now part of Antipodes' stable, transferring three strategies ...

What retiree portfolios need to avoid future cost-of-living crises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
The key to a "successful investment strategy" is the ability to generate returns over the long term and managing inflation is an important piece of the strategy, says a Challenger report. Investments much achieve a real rate of return that not only ...

AFM Investment Partners brings new feeder fund to Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
German renewable infrastructure specialist KGAL Real Investments has joined forces with AFM Investment Partners to bring Australian investors access to two impact funds. The feeder fund will give Australian investors access to KGAL's two impact funds ...

Schroders chief flags retirement

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
Schroders group chief executive Peter Harrison will retire next year, but he'll continue to serve as a director while the firm searches for his successor. Harrison joined Schroders in March 2013, serving as global head of investments before becoming ...

Adviser fakes exam certificate, cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
ASIC has slapped a permanent ban on a financial adviser who doctored her exam certificate and continued to provide advice without the proper qualifications. Adele Baaini, while working as a representative for licensee AAN Wealth Management, has been ...

Sequoia chief's job at stake in upcoming EGM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
Sequoia Financial Group will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in June that will consider a resolution to remove chief executive and managing director Garry Crole. Sequoia was earlier this month informed by a group of shareholders, that collectively ...

Platinum announces strategic review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
Platinum Asset Management said it would be undertaking a strategic review of both Platinum Capital (PMC) and Platinum Asia Investments (PAI). Platinum said the boards of both PMC and PAI have noticed a trend away from close-ended investment vehicles ...