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Praemium moves Smartfunds into UAE

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Praemium is taking five Smartfund products to the United Arab Emirates, leveraging a local bank's distribution network as it expands its footprint in the Gulf region. The ASX-listed SMA provider has gained regulatory approval from the Securities ...

CBA restructures executive leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank made a raft of changes to its executive lineup following the announcement of plans to demerge its wealth management business. Current chief risk officer David Cohen has been promoted to deputy chief executive, charged with leading ...

Dover exit renews self-licensing calls

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
The collapse of Dover Financial Advisers has left more than 400 advisers with a narrow 30-day window to sign on with a new licensee, renewing calls for a more straightforward self-licensing regime. It's unclear at this stage where those 400 advisers ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Most equity market investors are concerned but not yet alarmed at Trump's protectionist policies. This could be because the financial media is calling it a trade dispute, a trade spat and not a trade war (or is it because of the markets' relatively ...

CBA to demerge CFS, mulls further CommInsure sell-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank is demerging its wealth management business and undertaking a strategic review of its general insurance arm. Standing as a separately listed wealth management business, CFS Group will comprise Colonial First State, Colonial First State ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
A former Australian rugby union centre is joining a UK-based equities manager as its managing director for Australia. The firm is also launching an Aussie-based global equities unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund. ...

QIC continues US expansion

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
The chief executive of $85 billion investment manager QIC has two new direct reports. QIC appointed Leonie Wilkinson as the new executive director of its global clients and marketing division, shifting her from her current role at the investment giant ...

Sequoia sells direct equities business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Sequoia Financial Group noted the sale of its direct equities business in a market update. Sequoia said it was selling Sequoia Direct as part of a "simplication of its overall operation by reducing the number of AFSLs operated within the Sequoia group." ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
More than 10,000 Australian candidates have signed up to sit the CFA exams this financial year - a jump of 36% over the previous 12 months. Last year, 7606 candidates registered for the exams held at three test centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. ...

Hermes launches carbon ESG tool

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
The $60 billion global manager will launch a tool to calculate a fund's carbon performance and carbon risk as a part of its ESG toolkit to help fund managers make better decisions about investments. Hermes Investment Management will also use the tool ...