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Industry Super pushes for affordable housing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Establishing a new asset class that targets institutional funds and offers affordable rental housing could help curb the housing affordability crisis, Industry Super Australia's latest whitepaper shows. ISA chief economist and report author Stephen ...

Former NAB risk committee chair joins Wingate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
The chair who steered NAB's board risk committee through the GFC has taken on a new role at Wingate. Paul Rizzo joins Wingate as chair of the firm's Wingate Investment Partners Trust (WIP) investment committee. The WIP trusts co-invest with Wingate ...

FinPal integrates broking capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
FinPal will add functionality for mortgage brokers to its software to accommodate for the increasing overlap of broking with financial advice. The next release of the FinPal software will seek to bridge the gap created by advisers and brokers using ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Financial markets got what they wished for from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated ...

ANZ launches LIF resource

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
ANZ Wealth has launched an online resource to help prepare financial advisers for the looming Life Insurance Framework (LIF) reforms. The online hub provides guidance on how OneCare commissions will be paid, detail key deadlines and how the transition ...

Spaceship appoints new portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
Technology-focused super fund Spaceship has appointed a new portfolio manager. Jason Sedawie joins Spaceship from Decisive Asset Management, where he was also a portfolio manager. Prior to that, he was an equities analyst at Platypus Asset Management ...

Diversification trumping growth: Schroders

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
Latest Schroders broker research suggests diversification is overtaking growth as the primary driver of asset allocation strategy. About 50 brokers were surveyed and suggested that establishing a "well-diversified portfolio that will rise in most, but ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
A global quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
The Bank of England (BOE) did what it said it would do -- it lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% following its 2 November monetary policy council meeting (MPC). The announcement marks the first time in more than a decade that the BOE raised ...

ESG and emerging markets investment continues rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Demand for new smart beta mandates declined significantly over the past 12 months and accounted accounting for only 10% of new mandate activity with investors turning their focus to ESG. A finding from bfinance's latest research shows smart beta was ...