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New Calastone service automates distribution processing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... now electronic and automatic. The services have been warmly received with a growing percentage of the Australian managed fund industry now using Calastone for some or all of these functions.

State Street boosts managed fund sales team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has grown its managed fund sales team in Sydney with the appointment of two experienced sales managers. Syvanna Croyden and Amanda Conner will be responsible for in-field sales, reporting to head of managed fund sales ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, has stirred the debate around super board independence, saying it has deteriorated into a "set of silly suggestions." In his final FSI report, Murray recommended that super funds appoint a majority ...

ASX builds fund supermarket

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) openly says one of its strategic priorities is to continue to build out an investment supermarket. Already among the supermarket aisles are about 380 fund products with more than $200 billion in market capitalisation ...

Magellan launches hedged global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... Australian Securities Exchange on 10 August 2015 under the ticker MHG. This is the second Magellan exchange-quoted managed fund (EQMF), a fund that can be bought and sold on the ASX via CHESS, a platform that avoids the administrative complexities associated ...

UBS adds three execs to asset management team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
UBS has appointed a director of product development, a director of institutional business development and a marketing manager to its global asset management team in Australia. Vasco Gil joins UBS from Russell Investments, where he was product manager. ...

Macquarie awarded $2bn in mandates

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) was awarded over $2 billion in new institutional mandates during the three months to 30 June 2015. The mandates were awarded across ten strategies in six different countries, Macquarie said during the annual general ...

SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) stowed away $56 billion in excess cash during the 12 months to April 2015, the highest amount in seven years. Billions that would have been invested if it were not for market uncertainty is reflective of a wider ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Managed funds discount broker InvestSMART has launched a free direct-to-consumer "robo-advice" tool. The tool allows consumers to input their existing assets (if any), answer questions on desired outcomes and time horizons and then compare available ...

New SMAs at MLC increasing exponentially

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Three separately managed accounts (SMAs) added to the MLC Wrap and Navigator platforms have had a combined intake of more than $7 million since their launch in May. The launch of the Antares Listed Property, JBWere Listed Fixed Income and Redpoint Industrials ...