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Macquarie to enter robo-advice sector

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... is based on a fee-for-service model and will provide advice covering cash, fixed income, equities, commodities and alternatives, tailored to a client's risk profile and goals. It will have the facility to execute trades and implement plans for investors ...

ME and mutuals must embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... Inquiry (FSI); constraints on lending growth across the banking sector requiring consumers and investors to look at alternatives; investment in new technology starting to pay dividends; falling technology costs allowing investment in new and improved ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... the advent of Qantas Super's lifecycle fund was also much about trying to provide members with different choices or alternatives. The fund has other pre-mixed investment solutions - some with higher exposure to growth assets and vice versa. "This [lifecycle ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... time when these investments are very popular among institutional investors seeking to diversify, notably into liquid alternatives," Towers Watson global head of manager research Luba Nikulina

ETFs just 5pct of all indexing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... Rainmaker said that equities, and especially international equities, continue to be indexing's mainstay but that alternatives are becoming more central and growth of indexing in this asset class has been so strong it has compressed the equities proportion ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... markets. Almost a fifth of the fund (18.8%) is invested in developed markets outside of Australia. It also has 13.1% in alternatives and a cash weighting of more than 15%. Neal said: "We have seen significant volatility across markets during the quarter. ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... to this day. At the time he was helping US giant Blackstone turn itself from an asset manager into a diversified alternatives manager. He pointed out to Sowerby that Blue Sky's water investments could be classified as infrastructure and that if the company ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... 34% of these funds went into international equities mandates, while about 18% was invested in Australian equities. Alternatives, another rising trend, accounted for about 22% of new mandates. This represents a sharp change compared to previous years. ...

Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... hopeful of completing before the end of the year. The firm is also looking to further boost its stocks in the debt and alternatives area and increase its pool of analysts. Frontier has about $250 billion in funds under advice with services provided to ...

ASIC funding model needs "meat on the bones"

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... Commission' lacks detail about how the model would work, how it will benefit the industry and analysis of possible alternatives. These "make it impossible to determine if this is the best option," chief executive Steven Burrell said. "We need more meat ...