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Active managers need new measurement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
The way active fund managers' returns are measured may not accurately reflect their value, negating up to 85 basis points in overall performance. New research from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) finds the way performance ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... positions in operations and administrative support are especially likely to be consolidated or replaced," it continued. Fund managers are not blind to the fact that the workforce disruption brought about by automation will result in winners and losers. ...

Standard Life Investments appoints ESG head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Standard Life Investments has promoted one of its senior fund managers to head of stewardship and ESG investment with Guy Jubb retiring at the end of March. Euan Stirling joined Standard Life Investments' as a UK equity analyst in 2001 from Schroder ...

Calastone hires senior Macquarie executive

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... for Australia and New Zealand. Former Macquarie Bank executive Tony Nejasmic will work closely with platforms and fund managers who are increasingly adopting Calastone's automated network for domestic and cross border transaction processing. He has 20 ...

TCorp lands Hunter Hall chief

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... important to attract the best talent for government organisations of TCorp's size. It is one Australia's top ten fund managers with more than $70 billion in funds under management for NSW public sector clients. "As an experienced chief executive, Deverall ...

BGL joins DomaCom in fight for Kidman

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... performance against the top 200 funds, meaning they can compare their fund against their peers and professional fund managers. "Coming in to the Kidman bidding six months late means a successful bid is a long shot, but with partners such as BGL and SelfWealth ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... in Australia has seen largely domestic assets taken in-house. The next phase will see asset owners with their own fund managers located and trading offshore. This means that asset owners will need services - custody, administration, trading, middle and ...

Vanguard tells investors to watch what they pay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
As active fund managers warn about exposure to index trackers amid a January market route, Vanguard group chairman and chief executive Bill McNabb has hit back. Super funds, asset managers, economists and academics alike have said investors must expect ...

Former Mercer consultant launches research platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... to manipulate lengthy documents and excel spreadsheets, or manually extract information from PDF questionnaires. Fund managers only have to answer these surveys once, after that the platform auto-fills responses for future surveys. The surveys are designed ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... top of that. The fund is one of a new class of exchange traded managed funds which are currently being pursued by fund managers around the world. The new structure grants investors the ability to buy and sell on the ASX and settle via CHESS, avoiding ...