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Implemented Portfolios launches bespoke IMA offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
Implemented Portfolios created a white label individually managed account solution for clients of a $350 million Hobart-based financial planning firm. The managed accounts provider has designed a bespoke solution for integrated accounting and self-licensed ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
Sure there were a few down days but overall, the US equity market - like the energizer bunny - keeps on going and going... up. Wall Street's major equity market indices closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points ...

2017 to usher in stock-picker renaissance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
Janus Capital head of research Carmel Wellso believes the art of stock-picking is coming back in vogue as investors turn away from yield in pursuit of growth. Speaking to Financial Standard in Sydney, Wellso said that bottom-up active management had ...

Bankwest MD takes interim role at Praemium

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
A new chief executive will take the reins at Praemium on an interim basis following Michael Ohanessian's termination in February. Robert De Luca joins Praemium from Bankwest, where he was managing director from 2012 to 2017. Before that he was executive ...

Bennelong hires insto sales director

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
Bennelong Funds Management appointed a new director of institutional sales. Matthew Briggs joins Bennelong from Citigroup, where he held multiple positions over 11 years - most recently a sales role at Prime Finance. At Bennelong he will report to head ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
Some of the financial services industry's biggest players fronted the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into life insurance on Friday. Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane faced the panel first, telling the Committee that any further ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The just-released "OECD Economic Surveys, Australia" provided a pretty growth picture of the domestic economy, forecasting GDP growth of 2.6% this year and 3.1% in 2018 - one that would lower the current jobless rate from 5.7% (January 2017) to 5.5% ...

BT Wrap adds absolute investment fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Monash Investors added its flagship fund to BT Wrap's investments menus recently. Monash Investors co-portfolio manager Simon Shields said the firm is pleased the Monash Absolute Investment Fund is now available on the platform. "The fund has experienced ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Australian institutional investors are in the middle of an education process when it comes to figuring out what an ETF is, how it works, and how it will benefit them, iShares head of fixed income strategy Matthew Tucker said. Retail and wealth investors ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Along with household consumption, exports were the biggest contributor - both adding 0.5 percentage point -- to Australia's faster-than-expected 1.1% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year (expectations were for a 0.7% gain), that took the annual ...