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Platinum sells $24m Asia stake

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... in its Asia listed investment company, the underlying strategy of which was recently rated as one of the top-performing funds of its ilk by Morningstar. Platinum Asia Investments (PAI) updated securityholders yesterday that Platinum had entered into ...

Listed advice firm loses major shareholder

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
A listed financial planning and broking firm with over $40 billion in funds under advice told the ASX that a major shareholder and global financial services group has sold down its stake in the company. UBS owned 15.8% of Bell Financial Group; Bell ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... say they have unmet advice needs, the report said. An estimated $100 billion of $290 billion is said to be excess cash or funds that could be allocated to growth investments. Investment Trends senior analyst King Loong Choi said HNW investors' unmet ...

Colonial First State awards $168 million mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... combined assets of 11 of the United Kingdom's schemes - consolidated its passive equity mandates, appointing UBS to manage the funds.

Three is the magic number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
And so it came to pass, The Fed delivered! The US central bank lifted the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%-1.50% following its 12-13 December FOMC meeting - as widely expected and telegraphed but more importantly, as the dot plot of December ...

Russell wins consulting mandate from $700m super fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... "Russell Investments, with a strong investment engine and innovative staff, are the ideal partner for resource constrained funds who are committed to providing excellence for their members," Murphy said. Russell managing director, Australian institutional ...

APRA unveils proposed RSE reform package

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... practices, decision-making and oversight of fund expenditure. This is in an effort to curb "weaknesses" among some super funds that have broad objectives and goals with "no timeframes or allocated resources or budget and no linkage to clearly stated ...

AMP flags departures in distribution restructure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... servicing advisers across the aligned and IFA networks, as well as achieving sales targets for the platform, insurance, managed funds, bank and self-managed super funds (SMSF) product range. He joined the group in 2006 as a business development manager ...

Financial Standard launches the Investment Leadership Awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... December, and in the daily newsletter. Award recipients will also be featured in The Good Investment Guide - the Managed Funds edition, available in newsagents and bookstores in March 2018. The Financial Standard Investment Leadership Award categories ...

AMP names new chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... reinsurance arrangement with Gen Re. AMP Capital recently launched index products for the retail New Zealand market. The new funds are the All Country Global Shares Index Fund, the NZ Shares Index Fund and the Hedged Global Fixed Interest Index Fund. ...