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Industry rolls out anti-sexual harassment ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
Amid the countless sexual harassment claims made against high-profile men coming to the fore, an exchange-traded fund that invests in companies championing women's rights in the workplace is due to launch in early 2018. The Impact Shares YWCA Women's ...

Financial Standard journalist recognised in press awards

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... curve by 'disrupting' itself. Winning the category was Allen T. Cheng from Institutional Investor for two news stories: a profile piece on Peter Ma Mingzhe, the chairman and chief executive of China's Ping An Insurance; and a story on the views of several ...

SSGA dismisses ETF bubble concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... The wrapper is transparent, though, and you have to look through that wrapper to understand the product's true liquidity profile." Ultimately, LaValle said that despite the rapid growth of the ETF market, it's still "generally a new product." "It's about ...

HSBC cops historic fine for Lehman-linked failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... and failed to warn clients about the increasing credit risk of the LB-Notes. A misalignment between the client's risk profile and the risk rating assigned by the bank to the LB-Notes was also identified in more than 80% of relevant cases. As such, clients ...

Managed accounts now available via FirstChoice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... construct managed account portfolios which advisers can then recommend to clients based on their goals, objectives and risk profile. The offering also operates free from additional investment or administration costs for clients, and all portfolio changes ...

SSGA sales head lands top job, successor named

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... business case study for SSGA product sales worldwide. "Our Australian business today has a strong retail active investment profile and this is a credit to Amy's determination to build a meaningful local footprint that is well-informed by great client ...

Greater tech support needed for goals-based advice strategies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... carried out by goals-based advisers - a running theme at the Association of Goals Based Advice's inaugural conference. Profile Financial Services' Sarah Abood said solutions simply don't exist to build tools that allow goals-based advisers to have the ...

For Stanford Brown, life begins at 30

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... Medical Research Institute (CMRI) along the way. During the group's acknowledgment speech, chief executive Jonathan Hoyle ( Profile: Blood, Sweat and Tears of Joy ) gave an update on how it plans to grow the business in the years ahead. First, the group ...

Peer-learning popular among self-licensed advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
Self-licensed financial advisers are in favour of peer-based learning when it comes to knowing more about managed accounts. The latest survey of self-licensed businesses in the IOOF Alliances network showed advisers prefer engaged and interactive community ...

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 ...