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Advisers beware the uncomfortable truth of the ageing brain

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
Advisers risk losing clients or even facing compensation claims if they do not ready their clients for the cognitive decline that arises from ageing, State Street Global Advisors warns. In a new white paper, the global wealth management firm says all ...

InvestmentLink developing real-time compliance product

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
InvestmentLink has announced the development of a real-time compliance product that will provide financial advisers and dealer groups with immediate and ongoing compliance reporting. The product, Halcyon, will use InvestmentLink's data platform as well ...

QIC makes first agribusiness acquisition

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
QIC has entered a binding agreement to acquire an 80% controlling interest in the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAP). The agreement marks QIC's first major agriculture acquisition since announcing its agribusiness strategy and intention to grow ...

Frontier appoints capital markets analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
Frontier Advisors has appointed an analyst to its capital markets team. Cadence Ho joins Frontier in May having completed her Master of Economics at the University of Queensland. Prior to that, she was a product specialist at UOB Kay Hian Holdings in ...

Lifestage funds outperform early

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
Differences in the performance trends of MySuper single investment strategies and MySuper lifecycle products are beginning to emerge according to the latest Rainmaker research. Rainmaker recently combined the quarterly returns of both MySuper investment ...

Frontier appoints two senior consultants

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
Frontier Advisors has appointed Greg Barr and Anthony Michael as senior consultants in a bid to broaden the firm's range of expertise. Barr will commence his role on 3 May 2016, focusing on client servicing and managing some of Frontier's key advice ...

Bond king left midnight resignation letter

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
Bill Gross's 43-year career with PIMCO ended with a handwritten resignation note left "in the middle of the night," according to a new court filing from the fixed income giant. The 'bond king', as he is known, left PIMCO's Newport Beach office for the ...

Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
The Australian housing market is heading towards a price plateau, not a sharp crash according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). This view helps to dampen new research from Finder which found that 89.3% of Australian housing debt was at an ...

Pengana absolute return fund shifts to daily pricing

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Australian funds management group, Pengana has announced that its Pengana Absolute Return Asia Pacific Fund (PARAPF) has moved to daily pricing. The move brings the fund's pricing, and processing of applications and redemptions in line with the rest ...

ASIC calls out weak conflict policy in vertical business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
ASIC has called out conflict management policy in vertically-integrated funds management businesses as often being solely designed to conform to regulatory requirements. In its 'Culture, conduct and conflicts of interest in vertically integrated businesses ...