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Best-in-show funds pose pressing issues for advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The Productivity Commission's proposed best-in-show list of the top 10 default superannuation products could have pressing implications for financial advisers which shouldn't be overlooked. According to Wealthdigital technical manager Rob Lavery, the ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

What worries Aussie advisers: Natixis

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
The financial services Royal Commission coupled with the recent collapse of Dover Financial Advisers suggests it should come as no surprise that financial advisers are finding it difficult to navigate Australia's regulatory landscape. The 2018 Natixis ...

Global $221bn manager hires BlackRock exec for new Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
A global investment manager headquarted in Zurich has appointed the head of wealth for BlackRock's local iShares business to lead an expansion into the Australian market. Alex Zaika will become managing director for Australia at GAM Investments ...

Aussie fixed income managers with global teams outperform: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
In the Australian fixed income sector, fund managers that ran global teams outperformed those with domestic-only teams over the 10 years to April, according to the latest research from Zenith Investment Partners. However, the edge in the global-teams' ...

AMP adds legal expert to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
AMP is welcoming a legal and regulatory expert to its board in an effort to rebuild the company. John O'Sullivan joins AMP as a non-executive director effective 20 June 2018. He was a partner at Freehill Hollingdale & Page (now Herbert Smith Freehills) ...

AMP Capital appoints new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
AMP Capital has named Vanessa Wallace's successor a month after she resigned as the board chair. Wallace is being replaced by the chair of AMP's responsible entity and trustee boards, John Nesbitt. Nesbitt was previously Suncorp Bank's chief ...

Former Sunsuper boss links with EQT

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
Equity Trustees has appointed a former Sunsuper chief executive as chair to subsidiary. Tony Lally will join the board of Equity Trustees Superannuation as chair; current chair John Crocker retire from his position. Equity Trustees managing director ...

Instos partner with Canadian government

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Several global institutional investors representing more than $7 trillion in assets have joined with the Canadian government to invest in gender equality and infrastructure in emerging and frontier markets. In partnership with the Canadian government ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Australians all, let us rejoice! Our economy is in pole position. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter, accelerating from the 2.4% in the previous ...