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Asset consultant announces senior hire

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
An Australian asset consultant with $300 billion in funds under advice has landed a Mercer lead consultant to strengthen its advice capabilities. Elie Saikaly will join the senior advisory ranks at Frontier Advisors as a principal consultant from June. ...

Glaucus defends Blue Sky allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... overstated AUM by charging clients egregious management fees, which can reach up to 17% of the capital invested in Blue Sky funds and are charged irrespective of the performance of the underlying investment." Blue Sky chair John Kain responded by arguing ...

BetaShares corners market with super-cheap Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... generate the largest volume of revenue for their distributors. In the 12 months to December 2017, products with the highest funds under management charged between 10 and 19 basis points. At 0.07%, BetaShares' offering is significantly lower than other ...

Acorns mulls ASX listing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... contributions. Since launching in Australia about two years ago, Acorns has accrued more than 550,000 downloads and $150 million in funds under management. Financial Standard contacted Acorns Australia for comment. This story was updated at 1.11pm.

Antipodes expands investment team, creates active ETF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... investment team members. It is also establishing its second active exchange-traded product and launching Irish-domiciled UCITS funds for its three investment strategies. Speaking to Financial Standard, newly-appointed managing director Andrew Findlay ...

Fortnum lands investment veteran as chairman

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... Perpetual Private Wealth and vanEyk, Research - then a leading retail ratings house. He is currently chief executive at Douglas Funds Consulting, a specialist firm offering independent funds research and investment committee advice. In his new role ...

Increasing SG is not the answer: O'Dwyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... additional money sloshing around for other cultural practices that have built up along the way. "Members of superannuation funds have to stand by and watch as their retirement savings are spent on straight out political advertising." The Henry Tax Review ...

Two industry funds merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
Two industry superannuation funds will merge to create a $10.3 billion superannuation fund with about 125,000 members. NGS Super and QIEC Super will operate as one entity from 1 November 2018; QIEC Super will become a subdivision of NGS Super in the ...

Contango restructure sees reduced headcount

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... Switzer Financial Group." The acquisition will also grant Contango a retail licence, enabling it to launch retail-backed funds; expand the company's relationship with a network of retail and independent financial advisers; and allow it to "use the Switzer ...

Tech selloff builds cash pile at Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... times," Pengana chief investment officer Jordan Cvetanovski said. As at September 2017, about 9.8% of the $2.1 trillion funds under management in Australia was allocated to cash, and fund managers have been leaving lesser amounts in cash over the years ...