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Northern Trust chair defends Woodford loan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
Northern Trust chair and chief executive Michael O'Grady has defended the company giving an embattled Neil Woodford fund added flexibility on a £150 million loan. The British fundie famously took to YouTube to apologise to investors after his fund ...

First Sentier hires Nikko executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
First Sentier Investors, newly rechristened from Colonial First State Global Asset Management, hired from Nikko Asset Management to fill its chief operating officer role. Rob Scott joined the company as its new chief operating officer, starting in June. ...

Allianz Retire+ to research retirement transition

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
Allianz Retire+ is partnering with Macquarie University in a three-year research project to better understand the impact of holistic advice on retiree happiness. Macquarie University associate professor Joanne Earl will lead the project, and will work ...

CommSec responds to sale rumours

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
CommSec is being coy about rumours Ord Minnett is poised to purchase its advisory unit. The Australian Financial Review reported yesterday that stockbroking firm Ord Minnett is planning to purchase CommSec Advisory. It reported Ord Minnett was asked ...

New principal consultants at Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Frontier Advisors has promoted two from its team to principal consultants. Infrastructure specialist Manish Rastogi and capital markets and asset allocation specialist Philip Naylor were promoted to principal consultants from senior consultants. Rastogi ...

Industry super satisfaction continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Industry superannuation funds continue to dominate satisfaction within the super sector with the retail sector continuing to be weighed down by Royal Commission fallout. Latest Roy Morgan research shows the 12 months to July served to stretch the domination ...

Chi-X launches new trading solution

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Chi-X Australia has launched a market-on-close trading solution that provides the opportunity for anonymous, all day liquidity and to execute at the ASX closing price. Called MatchPoint, the solution uses the existing hidden market-on-close order type ...

AXA Investment Managers expands impact investing options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
AXA Investment Managers announced its fourth impact investment strategy which will launch at the end of this year, focused on addressing the basic needs of consumers in emerging and frontier markets. The aim is to expand its investment portfolios by ...

Chief economist update: Fed future move depends on dollar direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Freeze frame. Financial markets the world over would be in a sort of suspended animation as they await the conclusion of the US Federal Reserve's September FOMC meeting. This time, there's no "will they, won't they" question to be answered ...

Perpetual appoints general manager, distribution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
Perpetual has appointed a new general manager, distribution from Franklin Templeton. Adam Quaife will head up distribution for the company. He has spent the last 17 years at Franklin Templeton in a variety of senior distribution roles prior to joining ...