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Morningstar creates chief ratings officer role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... Morningstar, Ptak has served in a number of senior roles. He joined as an equity analyst and moved on to become a director of exchange-traded fund analysis, investment manager, and president and investments chief of Morningstar Investment Services. Ptak's ...

IAPF to acquire management rights for $40m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... team and facilitate the future growth of IAPF." The fund was established in 2012 and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in 2013. Since 2013 it has grown from 8 assets to over 30. It became dual listed on the ASX in May 2019.

NAB to pay $15m for Royal Commission case study

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... NAB's "introducer program" whereby a third-party introducer could "spot and refer" a potential customer to NAB in exchange for a commission if the customer signed up to a NAB loan. All the introducers had to do to earn their commission was provide ...

The Big Issue launches investment platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
The Big Issue has launched an impact-investing platform, The Big Exchange, backed by investment management giants aiming to build a new financial system that makes a difference. The Big Issue Group in the UK, with the help of fund managers like Aberdeen ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... "Australia is a mid-sized open economy in an interconnected world, so what happens abroad has an impact here on both our exchange rate and our yield curve. In the past, the interest differentials provided a reasonable gauge to the relative stance of ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the foreign exchange risk reserve ratio for forward contracts to 0% from 20% over the weekend, effectively giving its blessing to currency traders to "get shorty". The PBOC imposed the 20% risk reserve ratio ...

Crypto exchange owners charged

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
The founders of derivatives cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX are facing criminal charges for allegedly violating anti-money laundering laws and basic compliance procedures. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged co-founders Arthur ...

Vanguard to cull institutional mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... Robin Bowerman was appointed the chair of the SMSF Association in October 2019 but moved to deputy chair in February. In exchange traded funds (ETFs), Vanguard holds a 31% share with roughly $31 billion of the total $70.7 billion of assets in ASX-listed ...

Multi-strategy fund launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
A boutique Australian investment manager has launched a fund that uses sophisticated quantitative and foreign-exchange trading strategies. The Ferguson Hyams Multi-Strategy Fund was made available in mid-August and managed by Bermuda-registered Incu ...

RBA, ASIC provide CHESS guidance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... as soon as this can safely be achieved by the ASX, ASIC and the RBA said, taking into account user feedback from the exchange's recent consultation on a revised implementation timeline. The regulators expect the ASX to demonstrate the readiness of the ...