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Industry fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
An investment manager fast approaching US$10 billion in assets under management and advice recently won an emerging markets equities mandate from an industry superannuation fund. ClariVest Asset Management will manage the $75 million mandate from the ...

More adviser participation needed to shape ethics code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
Financial advisers must consult on the draft code of ethics as it contains vague standards the industry has never previously been required to adhere to. While it is already expected that advisers comply with a raft of legal obligations, wealthdigital ...

SMA provider to award $20m mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
A separately managed account provider will soon award a $15-20 million Australian equities mandate to a high conviction manager, but with a twist. Agentia is working with portfolio construction consultancy InvestSense to reshape its Australian equities ...

Blue Sky revaluation sees asset prices drop

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has completed an independent revaluation for 25% of its fee-earning assets under management, and it is expected to reduce FY18 net profit after tax by $7 million. The first phase of Blue Sky's total portfolio revaluation ...

ASIC wants industry views on short selling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
ASIC is reviewing its approach to short selling, including a proposal which would allow market makers of certain exchange-traded products to naked short sell units in an ETF or a managed fund. The law enforcement agency is seeking feedback on several ...

Advice fintech shutters Sydney office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
As part of a strategic review, an ASX-listed Australian fintech targeting the financial advice market will close its Sydney office and reduce three sales and customer service staff. Intiger said the decision came about because the review "reaffirmed ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Six index points or 0.1% is all the All Ordinaries index needs to add to by the close of today's trading activity and it would match the decade-high (January 2008) closing level of 6241.46 points recorded on January 9 this year. As at yesterday's ...

Tech is all upside for insurance: HSBC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
Latest HSBC research highlights insurance is an industry ready for disruption, and envisages significant benefits related to technology-enabled solutions to financial inclusion and affordability issues. In the report HSBC outlines the various ways in ...

Praemium chief executive returns to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
Michael Ohanessian has been appointed to Praemium's board. A year since Ohanessian was re-instated as chief executive of the platform provider, he has been appointed as managing director on Praemium's board, returning after a much publicised ...

Chief economist update: New RBNZ Governor maintains old policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
The prevailing global dynamics of tight labour markets and low inflation is not the sole purview of big developed economies. It's happening in the US - the biggest economy in the world (US$18.6 trillion in 2016, according to World Bank estimates) ...