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BlackRock confirms iShares delisting timetable

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
BlackRock has laid out options for iShares ETF investors to liquidate their holdings, reconfirming it will suspend the trading of five products from the ASX in about a month. On May 3, BlackRock said it was pulling five iShares products from the Australian ...

$50 billion super fund appoints new analyst

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
A top super fund that manages $50 billion on behalf of two million members has appointed a new senior analyst, after the incumbent moved to a boutique manager. Rest is welcoming Steven Green as a senior analyst, replacing the outgoing William Riggall. ...

ASIC and FPA submit recommendations to RC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
ASIC and the FPA have made several recommendations to the Royal Commission, including eliminating the practice of grandfathered advice commissions. In its second round submission to the Commission, ASIC said it was concerned ongoing advice arrangements ...

Mental health to transform life insurance: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
ANZ Wealth is making inroads with its newly launched mental health initiatives, including innovative and preventative programs aiming for the life insurer to play a more active role in the space. According to ANZ Wealth head of mental health and wellness ...

More mums in the workforce: ABS

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
As Mother's Day fast approaches, latest Census data shows more than 53% of Australia's six million mums are active in the workforce - an increase of about seven percentage points over the 10 years to 2016. The Australian Bureau of Statistics also points ...

PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
PIMCO has partnered with a financial technology company to enhance its quantitative research and analytic capabilities into its investment process. Part of the partnership sees PIMCO acquiring a minority stake in cloud-based integrated data and financial ...

Perpetual appoints new CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
Financial services giant Perpetual has appointed a new chief executive officer. Rob Adams will join Perpetual from Janus Henderson in September. In an announcement to the ASX this morning Perpetual chairman Tony D'Aloisio highlighted Adams three decades ...

Contango LIC slashes cash allocation after acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Contango Asset Management is reducing the cash allocation in its listed income fund, aiming to have 95% of its net tangible assets fully invested. For the past 12 to 18 months, the $100 million Contango Income Generator listed investment company (CIE) ...

Zenith hires former asset management chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Zenith Investment Partners appointed the former chief executive of an Australian equities fund manager as its national sales manager. David Parr joins Zenith at a time the investment research firm is broadening its managed accounts capabilities, on ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Let me take you down (no, I'm not going to Strawberry Fields) back to early 2016, when the US and the European Union decided to lift financial and oil sanctions on Iran. Almost immediately Tehran announced it's bringing back production to 3 million ...