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Retail managed accounts option gains traction

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A new platform is targeting investors directly with promises to save time and huge amounts of fees through the benefits of a managed discretionary account service. Touted as Australia's first direct-to-client automated alternative managed accounts offering ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
Active and passive fixed income investing are complementary, not at logger-heads, and serve different purposes within portfolios and in different market conditions, according to QIC. In a new paper the investment management giant explores the debate ...

UBS names key Aussie hire

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... financial advisers with a new appointment to its wholesale team. Former Lazard Asset Management national manager of retail Ben Williams joins UBS as head of wholesale, with responsibility for building, implementing and monitoring the firms' strategic ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

Artificial intelligence provides adviser advantage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Artificial intelligence is reshaping wealth management and a digital infrastructure specialist believes financial advice practices will greatly benefit from implementing AI in the workplace. Dimension Data believes artificial intelligence is not just ...

Merged asset manager appoints Australian leadership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
The Australian leadership team for the finalised merger of two global investment managers, collectively representing $998 billion in assets, has been named. Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life, whose merged asset management business is now known ...

Annuity sales boost Challenger results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Challenger's life segment continued to deliver in the 12 months to June as a result of the annuity provider diversifying its product range and expanding in to partnerships outside of Australia. The life business reported sales of $5 billion underpinned ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
The hits keep coming for Commonwealth Bank with new details of problems within the bank that have cost customers and employees millions of dollars. Hours after the bank was forced to refund more than $10 million for mis-sold consumer credit insurance ...

IFM Investors continues global growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Institutional fund manager IFM Investors grew its funds under management by 33% over the year to 30 June 2017, now totaling $92.9 billion with 93% of its products and mandates outperforming their objectives. The fund manager raised $18.8 billion from ...

New Zealand super goes green

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
New Zealand's $35 billion sovereign wealth fund is hanging its future on a low-carbon strategy, shifting 40% of its funds away from companies with high exposure to carbon emissions and reserves. As part of the major deviation, Guardians of the New Zealand ...