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Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... group over members, who continued to receive trailing commissions may potentially breaching the section 52(2)(d)(i) and (d)(iii) of the SIS Act. CBA admitted to APRA in March 2014 it breached the SIS Act on 13,000 occasions after it was unable to determine ...

CFA adds AI and fintech to curriculum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... applications in investment management, ethics and machine learning. Equity portfolio management, which is a subject in Level III, will ask about the latest practices in passive and active equity investing. Level III will also introduce content on professionalism ...

Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... proposed US$50 million fund. Auctus Alternative Investments will acquire up to 10% economic interest in the Scout Ventures Fund III, spending no more than $1 million on the investment. The Scout Ventures Fund III (GP) will deploy US$50 million across ...

Sydney asset manager hires director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... Evans & Partners Global Flagship Fund; Evans & Partners Global Disruption Fund; and Cordish Dixon Private Equity Funds I and III. Walsh and Company was co-founded in 2007 by Max Walsh. It runs funds in fixed income, equities, private equity, property ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... Management's investment director. In Australia, about 6000 candidates have registered to sit the June 23 exams. Level II and III exams are offered only in June but Level I is held twice a year - in June and December. The June 23 exams represent the ...

State Street announces fixed income appointment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... (EMEA). State Street's securities finance division in Asia Pacific is headed by Jansen Chua. "Regulatory changes such as Basel III have driven financial institutions to look carefully at their sources of funding. We continue to see increased demand for ...

Macquarie platform, wrap businesses soar

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... year-on-year. Performance fees earned more than doubled to $595 million thanks to the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund III (MEIF3), Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) and other managed funds and co-investors. The group recorded a net profit of $2.6 billion ...

More than half fail CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Smith said. Over the last 10 years, the average pass rate for each level is: 40% (Level I), 44% (Level II) and 52% (Level III). According to the institute, CBA employed the largest group of CFAs (124), followed by NAB (95), Macquarie Group (81) and Westpac ...

Aussie currency drives fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... additional investment option for clients seeking new ways to invest surplus cash, especially as the implications of Basel III begin to take hold. The international investment giant said under Basel III regulations banks are no longer able to rely on ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... bringing with her more than 20 years' experience in marketing. Separately, ME Bank was recently involved in the first ever Basel III true perpetual hybrid transaction in the Australian market. Law firm Baker McKenzie advised NAB and Westpac as joint ...