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CBA to close institutional equities business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
Commonwealth Bank is closing its institutional equities business following a strategic partnership with Goldman Sachs investment bank. Commonwealth Bank's proprietary institutional equities team that forms part of the bank's institutional banking and ...

Registrations for 2016 Chief Economists Forum open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... hear insights from Kevin Anderson, head of investments for Asia Pacific at State Street Global Advisers (SSGA), which is the Gold Sponsor for the event. Registrations are available via the 2016 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum website.

Aged care, gold opportunity for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... people who need to deal with aged care management find it either "somewhat" or "very difficult," an attitude that creates a gold opportunity for advisers to help their clients. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released the ...

JBWere announces three senior appointments

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
JBWere has made three senior appointments across its advice, products and markets, and operations teams in a bid to grow flexibility in an evolving business environment. Joining JBWere as general manager products and markets is ESSSuper board member ...

Pengana aims to lead global small cap groundswell

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Pengana hopes the new strategy it is offering through a partnership with the so-called Queen of Small Caps, Leah Zell's firm, Lizard Investors, resonates with investors as much as global mega-cap peers Magellan and Platinum. Pengana's director of distribution ...

Robert Lipman re-brands, appoints MD

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
Advice firm Robert Lipman & Associates has changed its name and appointed a new managing director. Paul Burgon takes on the role at the firm, now known as Lipman Burgon & Partners, from founding partner Robert Lipman, who will now become executive chair. ...

Goldman Sachs calls time on BRICs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has closed its BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Fund and integrated it into a wider emerging markets fund. After the firm first coined the term in 2001, the move effectively brings the BRIC era to an end. GSAM notified ...

Multi-asset funds rated high but risk disappointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... multi-asset funds has rated 59 different strategies and awarded six of them the highest possible score, the Analyst Rating of Gold. BlackRock Global Allocation, Schroder Balanced and four Vanguard Index strategies are considered to be the best multi-asset ...

Super tax back on Turnbull's agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
Taxing of superannuation contributions is back on the government's agenda, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and some industry stakeholders saying that "all measures are on the table." The issue of superannuation tax concessions came up yesterday ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015