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PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
As the country head of global fund manager, Standard Life Investments' Simone Bouch knows a thing or two about the importance of investment performance. But if she'd followed through on her childhood ambition the focus would be performance of a somewhat ...

MetLife appoints senior AMP, AIA vets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
MetLife has made three appointments to its executive team. Joining from AIA, where he was head of AIA Vitality, James Carey has been appointed to the new role of head of reinsurance and regulatory affairs. MetLife chief product and marketing officer ...

UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
UniSuper has developed a custom retirement adequacy index to gain a better understanding of how members are tracking towards their retirement goals. While superannuation funds have traditionally relied on the ASFA retirement standard to benchmark how ...

Half of SMSFs set for super change slug

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
If the government's proposed changes to superannuation go through, keeping any excess funds over the $1.6 million cap in accumulation is likely to be more beneficial than withdrawing it from superannuation altogether. That's according to modelling by ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
With inflation at a 17 year low markets are pricing in a rate cut at next week's RBA meeting, although, according to head of investment management Australia at Western Asset Management, Anthony Kirkham, a rate cut might not be the right answer. With ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
Gold's place inside an investment portfolio came under the spotlight this week as two fund managers provided separate views on the divisive asset. Speaking at an ABC Bullion event, 'The new bull market in precious metals', Cor Capital Fund executive ...

Sustainable office trust attracts major new investor

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Uniting Financial Services (UFS) has joined the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to drive Australia's commercial property sector towards a higher-performance future. UFS, the Treasury and Investment Services arm of the Uniting Church in Australia ...

Major tenant extends lease at Cromwell property

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Global real estate investment manager, Cromwell Property Group, has confirmed that the Bureau of Meteorology has extended its lease at 700 Collins Street, Melbourne for a further 10 years. The Bureau of Meteorology occupies approximately 15,500 square ...

Centuria's Macquarie strategy pays off

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
The burgeoning unlisted property fund market is again on show this week with Centuria delivering significant returns on the sale of two properties in northern Sydney. Yesterday Centuria sold 80 Waterloo Road and 16 Byfield Street at Macquarie Park for ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Exchange traded fund providers and financial advisers need to leverage the "enormous winds" created by ETFs in building better client investment portfolios, according to a leading industry executive. Speaking at the Financial Standard Exchange Traded ...