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Frontier partners with due diligence platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
Frontier has enlisted the help of a global technology platform to help automate the diligence processes. DiligenceVault will enable the asset consultant to collect and centralise asset manager and fund data. The solution is a two-sided platform used ...

Aware Super hits $150bn, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
Aware Super has hit a new milestone, passing $150 billion in members' retirement savings. The fund also confirmed a new hire in its ESG team. Celebrating the milestone, the fund said it aimed to pass on the benefits of scale to members - most crucially ...

Super fund awards first ESG mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
A $3.4 billion industry super fund handed its first ESG mandate to an Edinburgh-based fixed income boutique. First Super has selected Cameron Hume to manage $125 million via its Global Fixed Income ESG Fund, comprising investments in sovereigns, corporates ...

Northern Trust launches low carbon strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has launched an actively managed strategy that focuses on high-quality, low-volatility stocks while maintaining a lower carbon footprint. The Quality Low Volatility Low Carbon World (QLV Low Carbon) Strategy is ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Investors poured their money into global equities exchange-traded funds, which took in nearly $5 billion in the first half of 2021. This is according to a joint analysis by the Australian Securities Exchange and Vanguard, which found that global equity ...

AMP North adds portfolios

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
AMP has added new risk profile options to the MyNorth Sustainable and Zenith ranges. The current MyNorth Sustainable Managed Portfolio Balanced profile has added moderately conservative and moderately aggressive risk profiles for clients. The guiding ...

Former Hillross adviser pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Wael Kourieh, who was an authorised representative of Hillross between 2010 and 2016, has plead guilty to false document charges following an ASIC investigation. Kourieh pleaded guilty to one count of making false documents and one count of using false ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

Morningstar launches fee comparison tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
Morningstar is launching a new tool that provides increased transparency and disclosure on fees across its investments and superannuation products, well above what RG97 requires. The Morningstar Total Cost Ratio (TCR), which will be rolled out on August ...

BT Panorama completes migration

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
BT Panorama has completed the migration of its BT Wrap clients, bringing its total funds under administration to over $100 billion. The final tranche of nearly 50,000 accounts worth over $15 billion in funds under administration have migrated to BT ...