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Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
Investment Trends has released the 16th edition of its Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis Report, with Netwealth taking out the top gong. The wealth management platform led the pack for overall platform functionality, followed closely by ...

Natixis hires insto sales director, opens Melbourne office

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... high-active share strategies," he said. King said Natixis will bring value to Melbourne's mushrooming market. "Melbourne is not just home to many of Australia's most important financial institutions - it will soon have a bigger population than Sydney," ...

Costs spiral for baby boomers

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... sewerage charges up 2.9%, property rates up 2.5%, and fuel up 2.9%. Meanwhile, rent only rose 0.2% on average over the year. Not all state capitals suffered the same blows, with Hobart the worst off. Prices rose 2.7% in Hobart thanks to a strong increase ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... AustralianSuper has roughly half as much." The report said that the push into more non-traditional investments by industry funds is not surprising as thy have a "stickier" client base and long-term investment horizon. The report also noted that the allowable ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana... and repeat the past, Japan did. Preliminary estimates show that the economy contracted by 1.6% in the last quarter of 2019 following a 0.1% growth (if you could call ...

Nowra man lies to ASIC, jailed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
A 73-year-old man from Nowra in New South Wales is facing two years imprisonment for giving false or misleading information to ASIC about shareholding. John Lindsay Merity was sentenced to a term of two years imprisonment, with a minimum of one year ...

T. Rowe Price shutters local fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
Great returns and a well-regarded portfolio manager were not enough to save the local version of T. Rowe Price's Asian equities ex Japan fund, which is shutting after outflows. The T. Rowe Price Asia ex-Japan fund is managed by Hong Kong-based Anh ...

Analyst views on ESG swing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... a minority of companies had ESG issues on their radar and 29% responded when asked if ESG was on the corporate agenda "no, not really". In 2020 the proportion of analysts who said "no, not really" to whether companies are taking ESG seriously was down ...

Industry fund bumps up premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... of disablement is on or after 1 April 2020 and they meet other eligibility criteria. This will also apply to those who are not working when their disablement occurs but have a formalised agreement to commence employment in the future. Further, from April ...

FSC calls for CSLR claims cap

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... Council (FSC) has called for the government to cap compensation claims over financial misconduct at "reasonable levels" so as not to create a "moral hazard". In a submission to the Treasury's Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), the FSC urged ...