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Macquarie wins Investment Manager of the Year

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Macquarie Investment Management was crowned Investment Manager of the Year at the Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards tonight in Sydney. The annual awards recognise Australian investment managers that have proven to consistently add value ...

Challenger adds new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Challenger's multi-boutique asset management business has taken a minority stake in a new alternatives manager. Fidante Partners will take over the distribution and marketing of London-based FME Asset Management (Financial Markets Engineering), in line ...

Government moves on Royal Commission super recommendations

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
The Federal Government has amended the SIS Act and some of its superannuation bills to include recommendations made in the Royal Commission's final report. Superannuation fund trustees are set to be banned from treating employers in efforts to be ...

Westpac mulls sale of in-house planners

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Westpac has confirmed it is exploring options for its in-house financial planning division, following questions from Financial Standard about a potential sale of 50% of Westpac Financial Planning. Financial Standard understands Westpac is in talks with ...

Retirement expert joins Milliman

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Milliman has appointed a director of strategy and solutions in Australia. Amara Haqqani joins the actuarial, retirement and risk management consultancy firm based in Sydney. Haqqani has spent close to two decades in financial services, of which four ...

Netflix-style shopping for funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A former member of Macquarie's insto equities sales team is launching a new platform which ultimately aims to offer a Netflix-style shopping experience to financial advisers and clients. Forum 360 has been working for two years to build the prototype ...

Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A recession might happen, eventually. But if it does growth might not be far off either, according to Vanguard. Speaking today at the Sydney leg of the fund manager's financial adviser roadshow, Vanguard global chief economist and global head of investment ...

Former Macquarie advisers have bans reduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
Two former Macquarie financial advisers that were banned for 10 years for falsifying client records have had their penalties substantially reduced by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Mark Alexander Landau and Marcus Roderick Campbell were banned ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
When the Bank of England (BOE) decided to keep monetary policy settings unchanged following its February 7 monetary policy committee meeting, it acknowledged in its statement that: "UK economic growth slowed in late 2018 and appears to have weakened ...

AMP Capital appoints managing director Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... January. the head of retail position at AMP Capital is yet to be filled. AMP Capital also confirmed that head of institutional Tim Nation has been appointed to the role of head of real estate distribution, Asia Pacific. Whether the lead insto role will ...