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Coolabah buys retail fund manager stake

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... of Coolabah and Yellow Brick Road. Yellow Brick Road yesterday announced that is selling its stake to Coolabah for a purchase price of $7.5 million, giving the latter 100% ownership of the business. There will be no other change at Coolabah or Smarter ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... report in past two years, the report said. Pendal Group (ASX: PDL) Pendal's ESG positives on the report included its purchase of ESG research house Regnan, lower than sector average turnover for FY18 and a target of having 40% women at board and ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
"China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games ...

Sovereign wealth fund revokes exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has revoked its decision to exclude Rio Tinto from its investments. Norges Bank has repealed exclusions placed on five international organisations over the last 15 years, Rio Tinto among them. The fund will also now ...

Facebook to launch own currency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
The social media giant revealed plans for its first financial services product, a digital wallet and its own cryptocurrency. Facebook is set to launch its own digital wallet in 2020, to allow people to access and participate in the Libra network, Facebook's ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... homes have had to borrow more relative to their incomes." "Increasingly, younger Australians are delaying their first purchase and not becoming homeowners until later in life, so they've got shorter working lives over which to repay mortgage loans. "Since ...

Restructure sees wealth firm lose chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
The chief executive of Evans Dixon is stepping down following a management restructure. Evans Dixon is undergoing a reshuffle that will see chief executive Alan Dixon step aside. The firm said Dixon will instead focus on the management of its US Master ...

ASIC chases licensee over conflicted remuneration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... proceedings in the Federal Court yesterday, ASIC alleged The SMSF Club advised clients to set up SMSFs and then use the SMSF to purchase property marketed by Positive RealEstate, a firm The SMSF Club held a referral agreement with. According to ASIC ...

International firm acquires advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
A national financial advice group with more than 120 advisers on its books is to be acquired by a major Canadian wealth manager. Patersons Securities is being purchased by Canaccord Genuity via its Australian operations, Canaccord Financial Group. As ...

Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... solution." Liquidnet recently acquired RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for asset managers to consume, discover, and purchase investment research, and the OTAS Technologies in 2017.