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UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
UBS Global Asset Management has expanded its team in Australia with the appointment of a fixed income investment specialist from Zenith and a national sales manager from BlackRock. Jonathan Baird will join UBS's Sydney fixed income team as investment ...

BTFG adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... platforms -Wrap, Asgard and Panorama- with Calastone technology. BTFG has been using Calastone for automatic routing of managed fund orders on its BT Wrap platform from 2012. Statements for reconciliations, end of tax year, and distribution statements ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... genuine and the advisers know it; they're smart." With its recently launched and highly innovative exchange traded managed fund, the Magellan Global Equities Fund, Douglass and his team are making a credible bid for the notoriously tough to crack self-managed ...

Charter Hall industrial funds swell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Charter Hall has acquired around $700 million in industrial assets since 1 July 2015, bringing the group's total industrial and logistics funds under management to $3.5 billion. The $700 million in acquisitions over the past three months have been acquired ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... see what they're holding and feel attached to it," she says. "Technically they can see what they're holding in a managed fund but they don't have that level of attachment because there's a barrier between them and the investment." For those WealthEnhancers ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Andrew Robb's China free trade deal provides vast opportunities for Australia's financial services industry. It builds on strong foundations set by former Prime Ministers Whitlam, Hawke, Howard and Gillard and puts Australia ahead of the USA, Japan ...

QSuper announces new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Following the departure of Rosemary Vilgan in July, QSuper has announced its new chief executive. QSuper chief strategy officer Michael Pennisi will replace Vilgan as the new chief executive in October. The fund's chairman, Karl Morris, said Pennisi ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... on top of the management fee, you are getting a total expense ratio higher than if you had gone into a traditional managed fund." The most extreme example is the AMP Capital China Growth Fund, the only LIC in Australia to give investors exposure to China ...

Instreet grows sales team

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Boutique investment manager, Instreet Investment, has expanded its sales team with the appointment of two senior staff. Marcus Obermeder and James Poon join as sales director and head of product development respectively. A financial adviser and investment ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... portfolios and solutions and Alex Zaika will be director of wealth advisory sales strategist. - State Street appoints to managed fund sales team A - State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) grew its managed fund sales team in Sydney with the appointment of ...