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Mercer deputy CIO retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
Mercer has created a new head of fund implementation role and announced its long-serving deputy chief investment officer has retired. Campbell McCulloch is now the head of fund implementation for delegated solutions, Pacific. He joined from the Future ...

CCIV draws mixed reception: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
Australia's Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle (CCIV) initiative received mixed responses from the global asset management community planning to ramp up cross-border strategies in the next five years, State Street research shows. Of the 250 ...

BetaShares wins insto allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
A freshly-minted BetaShares ETF has snagged a major investment from an Australian institutional investor, swelling to about four times its size in a single day. In an investment executed last week, an unnamed institutional investor placed $114 million ...

Macquarie Wrap adds Vanguard SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Vanguard's range of diversified managed accounts strategies are now available via Macquarie's Wrap platform. Targeting the growing number of financial advisers adopting managed accounts, Vanguard ETFs will predominantly be used to implement the asset ...

Aberdeen Standard launches AI-powered global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Aberdeen Standard Investments launched a new fund that uses active quantitative strategies powered by machine learning to identify sources of potential returns. Launched in Luxembourg, the Aberdeen Global (AG) Artificial Intelligence Global Equity SICAV ...

PractiFI opens US office

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
A fintech which delivers business administration services to the financial advice, superannuation and insurance industries has received funding to launch in the US. PractiFI received a $3 million injection from a joint venture between Microequities ...

AMP names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
AMP has named its new chief executive, ending months of speculation. Francesco De Ferrari will take the helm from 1 December 2018. He was most recently chief executive, South East Asia and Frontier Markets at Credit Suisse, as well as head of private ...

YBR rejects 'opportunistic' takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Yellow Brick Road has rejected a takeover bid claiming the offer price was too low and "opportunistic." Mercantile OFM (a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Mercantile Investment Company) yesterday submitted an off-market takeover bid to ASIC to ...

HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
HUB24 has lifted its revenue targets for the next three years, as it its platform and advice licensee swelled their revenues in FY18. It is now expecting to hit $19-$23 billion in funds under advice in by FY21, as opposed to its last year's forecast ...

LIT serves up junk bonds to SMSFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
A new listed investment trust is offering SMSF investors an opportunity to invest in high-yield bonds, with an annual net distribution north of 5%. The Neuberger Berman Global Corporate Income Trust will hold about 300 high-yield securities, with the ...