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Antipodes to launch global equities LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
Antipodes Partners is launching a global equities listed investment company. It will give retail investors access to the global equities market. The portfolio of the company will be based on the Antipodes Global Fund, which was declared by Morningstar ...

US becomes post-Brexit equity safe haven

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
US equities have become a "safe harbour" for global investors following the Brexit referendum, according to J.P. Morgan research. J.P. Morgan's quarterly perspectives for Q3 2016 noted that there is continuing uncertainty as to when the UK government ...

MGD sets focus on risk and succession

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Boutique financial services firm, MGD Wealth recently appointed a director of risk and succession. Joining the MGD team is Andrew Proudfoot, who will focus on the provision of financial risk mitigation strategies and high level strategic business succession ...

MORE Super switches to Simple Fund 360

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Independent SMSF administrator MORE Super will move the administration of its 5,000 SMSFs from BGL's Simple Fund Desktop to Simple Fund 360. "We compared alternate cloud based SMSF administration solutions and whilst Simple Fund 360 was not the first ...

Industry fund appoints new CSO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
A risk executive manager from Colonial First State will join an industry superannuation fund as its chief strategy officer later this month. Joining Mine Wealth + Wellbeing from 25 July is Vasyl Nair. He will lead a new corporate strategy and be responsible ...

Longevity driving interest in risk pooled products

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
A combination of longer life expectancy and poor returns from volatile markets is driving more investors to reassess their retirement and life insurance products, according to Milliman. Milliman, a global provider of actuarial products and services ...

Report finds fresh barriers to funds management exports

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
There has been very little progress in removing barriers preventing the export of Australian financial services seven years after the release of the Johnson report. Now a new survey of fund managers reveals the situation could even be worse than before ...

Consumers turning to the internet for advice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
Australian consumers are increasingly turning to the internet for financial advice on life insurance, signalling a need for the industry to respond to rapidly changing consumer demands. CANSTAR's latest Direct Life Insurance Star Ratings report found ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Giant global banks and consumers alike have found old fashioned solutions to the unusual problem of having to pay institutions to hold their cash deposits - safes, vaults and strongrooms are back in vogue. Japanese hardware stores report demand for ...

FTSE Russell launches "green revenue" model

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
Index provider FTSE Russell has launched a low carbon energy (LCE) data model which tracks the "green revenues" of companies comprising 98.5% of total global market cap. The goal of the new model is to give each listed entity a low carbon industrial ...