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AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
AMP's head of retail sales is departing following a restructure of the sales team last year. Stephen Craig joined AMP in 2008 as head of retail sales and marketing; he then became acting director, contemporary wealth management, head of goals-based ...

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Life insurance products sold directly to consumers are gaining prevalence over an area historically dominated by financial advisers and dealer groups, Strategic Insight's latest statistics show. The researcher found that in the decade to 2017, risk ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
"You may have noticed that at yesterday's meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Adopting multiple annuities could mean the difference between living comfortably or facing a massive shortfall in retirement, according to a retirement planning expert. David Babbel, a retirement strategy expert and professor from the University of ...

MLC, ANU boost alternatives strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
MLC and Australian National University will ramp up allocations to alternative assets in 2018, according to latest Preqin research. Preqin highlighted the two Australian firms in its alternative assets outlook report, which surveyed more than 550 institutional ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Sticks and stones may break my bones but sanctions will me get re-elected. Lost among investor worries over increased volatility in the financial markets, the correction on Wall Street, the prospect of a greater than three Fed rate hikes this year and ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A global institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win ...

Fundraise like a RockStar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... Prince's 'Purple Rain' UBS Best New Talent: Brian Stoddart (Zurich), The Doors' 'Roadhouse Blues' ANZ Best Returning Talent: Tim Sanderson (CFS), Darryl Braithwaite's 'Horses'. For more information, go to www.ficap.com.au.

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
ETFs maintained liquidity and picked up trading volume even as Australian shares plunged in February, according to latest research from Vanguard's Australian ETF Capital Markets division. In the week ending 9 February, ETF trading volumes tripled normal ...

Hunter Hall veteran launches new business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
A former portfolio manager of Hunter Hall's Value Growth Trust and its Global Value LIC is launching a new asset management business, having been granted a licence last week. Yizhong Chan worked at Hunter Hall for 10 years; during that time he made ...