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Northern Trust hires from State Street

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... institutional investors implement the capital market transactions for their portfolios. For example, they may sell or buy big blocks of securities when a superannuation fund changes its asset allocation, swaps external managers or makes new investment. ...

Super stability not guaranteed: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... commercially linked to a product provider. However, members need strategic advice even if they are content to use the building blocks of their current fund (or product provider)," Rice Warner said. "[And] there is no default product for retirement. All ...

L1 eyes $70m for UK property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... opportunities for attractive yields. The fund is targeting a distribution yield of 6-7%. It will invest in residential blocks of flats outside of London where it believes the yields are growing largely uninterrupted by Brexit. The raise is slated for ...

Vanguard to launch new ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... Developed Core Infrastructure Index (with net dividends reinvested). "The addition of these ETFs provides additional building blocks to allow investors to construct investment portfolios that are truly diversified across and within asset classes, and ...

Retirement income rules boost annuities: Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... retirement income products, including deferred lifetime annuities. Challenger described such products as "essential building blocks for CIPRs." Challenger said its fixed-term annuities, which represent about 80% of sales, will not be affected by the ...

BetaShares corners market with super-cheap Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... ETF industry on a strong growth trajectory, we believe that greater availability of simple, low cost portfolio building blocks will help drive the next wave of ETF industry growth. "A200 will significantly reduce the cost of ownership of a diversified ...

Product agnostic planners boost ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... in theory product agnostic, Cerulli said. "In this environment, planners are happier to recommend ETFs as the building blocks of a portfolio. Planners also like them because they are very simple to explain and they fulfill an obvious role in the portfolio ...

The next generation of adviser and client

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Additionally, women currently only account for 36% of students enrolling to study financial planning. Crucial stumbling blocks identified by the study include the tendency for women to remain in support roles longer than men despite the same level of ...

RNY wind-up sought as ASIC blocks Aurora move

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
RNY Australia Management (RAML), currently acting as responsible entity for the RNY Property Trust (RNY), will seek to wind up RNY in light of a decision against prospective RE Aurora Funds Management. ASIC did not grant a variation to Aurora's licence ...

Rising alternatives manager appoints new MD

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... developing and implementing innovative and prescriptive investment solutions that form best in class investment building blocks for both institutional and private investors. Sam will be a key member of the Longreach leadership team responsible for a ...