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BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
After an extensive review BlackRock has restructured its active equities product offering and affirmed its plans to integrate artificial intelligence, hinting that future jobs will be aligned with robots. In positioning itself for the future, the world's ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

ASIC cancels AFSL licences

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
ASIC cancelled the Australian financial services licenses of two financial services companies for failure to comply with a number of key obligations. Rebate Financial Services, a Melbourne-based licensed securities dealer, and Capstone Capital, a Perth-based ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
Industry super thought leaders have urged the sector to harness the power of the collective and collaborate more closely on problem solving to ensure longevity and continued member engagement. Speaking at the Mavis Robertson Plenary at the 2017 Conference ...

Largest Aussie single solar project deal sealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
The Commonwealth Bank and Clean Energy Finance Corporation have joined forces with one of Germany's biggest banks in Australia's largest single solar project financing deal to date. As financing partners to Edify Energy and international investor Wirsol ...

Ignition Wealth partners with pharmacy group

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Ignition Wealth will partner with Pharmacy Alliance to provide digital financial advice to its 650 members. The independent pharmacy group announced the formation of Alliance Family Wealth (AFW) to provide digital financial advice to the group's members ...

Fight for workplace equality and diversity far from over

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Those already in positions of power in the workplace have a responsibility to make room for women to step up. That is the view of the Association of Financial Advisers' outgoing chief executive Brad Fox, as shared during a panel discussion at an International ...

SSGA wields power on gender equality

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
State Street Global Advisors has called for greater female representation on the boards of companies in which it invests, collectively representing more than $30 trillion in market capitalisation. SSGA said in the event a company is too slow to take ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
"Some pick-up in wages growth is also expected, although wage increases are likely to remain below average for some time yet. Our liaison with businesses does not suggest that a pick-up in wage growth is imminent, but nor does it suggest that a further ...

Act like a professional to be a professional: Slattery

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
To regain the trust of Australians the SMSF sector must maintain the standards expected and demanded of professionals and to think otherwise is delusional. Opening the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference in Melbourne, chief executive Andrea Slattery ...