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Lonsec launches ESG metric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... facilitate more client-specific product selection and address the industry and government's discussions around improving the quality of financial advice. The new ESG BIOmetric arrives amidst rising preference for ESG-minded investment - for example ...

Remuneration has no bearing on advice quality

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... in the risk advice industry, managing director Wayne Handley argued that "we have to be careful that we focus on the quality of the advice and not the remuneration model, and sometimes that's lost in the wash." "Remuneration has no bearing on the quality ...

Emerging markets equity fund launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... will be able to generate excess returns and do so with less risk." According to Johnson, the strategy's focus on the quality of individual businesses has led to a portfolio significantly different from its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. ...

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... particularly pleased that we are now available to clients who use the full range of Macquarie Wrap options, given the quality of the advisers who use this leading platform," Morphic managing director Jack Lowenstein said. Rory MacIntyre a partner at ...

Equity Trustees appoints WA estate planning lawyer

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... ages, our Estate Planning division must adapt and expand its skillset in order to offer this changing demographic the quality of service that Equity Trustees prides itself on," Hacker said. "In particular, financial advisers must increasingly respond ...

Pengana partners with queen of small caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... ($3.8 billion). "The mandate will be for 30-80 stocks as we believe that a concentrated fund will outperform given the quality of smaller company stocks available globally," Pillemer said. "We have been keen to launch a global offering in this space ...

BNP becomes UniSuper master custodian

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... portfolio analysis and implementation Dharmendra Dayabhai said the fund was "highly impressed with the overall depth and quality of its service offering for both core custody and back/middle office functions." "Our custodial arrangements are a critical ...

Trowbridge proposals will hit consumers hardest

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... as the standard. He argued that the FSI's "job", then, should have been to focus on the other issues affecting the quality of life insurance advice, such as education, codes of conduct and client engagement. "Unfortunately, the focus has been almost ...

Lonsec launches product rating tools for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... Investment Outcomes program, were designed as a response to the industry and government's discussions around improving the quality of financial advice. "Government and regulators have reshaped remuneration practices and increased adviser obligations ...

Industry, government respond to Trowbridge report

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Treasurer Josh Frydenberg commenting that the report "makes a significant and constructive contribution to improving the quality of advice and outcomes for consumers." He added that the government is giving "close consideration" to Trowbridge's recommendations ...