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Quoted funds going strong at Mainstream

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
Mainstream said half of the 150,000 plus investors it services are now invested in a quoted fund, as it reports December quarter assets. Mainstream added $14 billion in funds under advice, four clients and 53 funds in the quarter ending December 2020. ...

Magellan continues fund restructure

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
Magellan Financial Group has progressed to the next step of the restructure of its retail global equities funds and opened the partnership offer to eligible investors. Magellan announced in August that it was seeking unitholder approval to combine the ...

Former CFSGAM chief joins property group

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
An ASX-listed property group has added the former chief executive of Colonial First State Global Asset Management as a non-executive director to its board. Warwick Negus joins the board of Dexus effective February 1. Negus is currently the chair of ...

MTAA, Tasplan reveal new brand

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
MTAA Super and Tasplan will take on a new name on April 1, as their $23 billion merger completes. The combined fund will be called Spirit Super and have 326,000 members and lower administration fees. MTAA Super chief executive Leanne Turner, who will ...

Future Fund director puts WA property on the market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
John Poynton has listed for sale his family's 15-bedroom property in Western Australia, with the price expected to be in the $7.5 million range. Sundance Lodge in Yallingup is spread over 13.2 hectares, and comes with 15 beds, 14 bathrooms, 36 car parks ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
The Chinese yuan has seen a sharp appreciation, leading major Chinese news outlets to report that the government would be relaxing rules to make it simpler to settle the currency internationally. 'Twas less than one and a half years ago that the ...

MLC Life appoints executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
MLC Life has appointed a new chief life insurance officer, as Sean McCormack gets ready for a February 26 departure. The role is going to Michael Rogers, who has worked as QSuper's general manager for insurance while it set up its own insurer QInsure. ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Future Super, the $1 billion ethical retail fund, has shared how its deidentified recruitment has helped boost diversity - after mixed results last year. Future Super head of group strategy Veronica Sherwood-Meares said on LinkedIn that Future Super ...

Franklin Templeton promotes executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Franklin Templeton has promoted two of its key executives and announced the launch of a research hub. The US$1.5 trillion asset manager named Stephen Dover, currently Franklin Templeton Investments' head of equities, as the market strategist and ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Brexit is over. But even before the UK and the EU shook hands on the post-Brexit trade and cooperation pact on 24 December 2020 and before the ink on the signatures of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles ...