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WAM Capital founding director resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
One of the founding directors of Wilson Asset Management's WAM Capital LIC is resigning, and his successor has been appointed. Matthew Kidman has served on WAM Capital's board since 1999. He joined WAM in 1998 as a portfolio manager, having previously ...

IRESS acquires digital advice compliance business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
IRESS will acquire a regtech and data analytics provider after making a minority investment in the business last year. Lucsan provides financial advisers with comprehensive compliance coverage including daily oversight, targeted adviser auditing, best ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... tabled summary of the survey's findings (shown below) show that while the components of the headline index are slowing (except for "future output"),they are still at levels indicating expansion. Global Manufacturing PMI(TM) summary 50 = no change on ...

Prime Value appoints new portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... a market capitalisation of less than $500 million. It has returned 14.6% since inception in October 2015, net of fees (except performance fees). Ivers spent two years at Contango, prior to which he worked in consulting roles. He was also a portfolio ...

Focus on tax outcomes to drive up member returns: Parametric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... 100% of its capital allocated to a pre-tax focused equity pool for the entire period. All income and gains are reinvested except for those funding members' pension phases. Using a tax-managed (TM) strategy in this scenario reveals that fund-level differences ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... increased by 5% in the year to the December quarter, slowing from 8.3% in the September quarter and 10.2% in the June quarter. Except for Darwin and Perth where house prices have been in declining (in year-on-year terms since the first quarter of 2015) ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... its 17th month of expansion in January - show that the Japanese economy is well and truly headed in the right direction, except for inflation that is. While headline CPI inflation quickened to a 34-month high of 1.3% in the year to January, the core ...

Industry fund switches to IRESS

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
A $7 billion industry superannuation fund will now use IRESS' Acurity platform to administer its member superannuation accounts. The partnership means more than 90% of member transactions at Statewide Super are now automated and paperless. The fund ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... benchmark levels. This year's report also calculated fund performance on risk adjusted return basis. Results were similar, except for A-REITs where RARs were slightly more positive. S&P has reported country-specific active fund performance for 16 years ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... correlation with the growth of indexing, and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant, except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis," Vanguard said. Vanguard has a 28.5% slice of Australia's $30 billion ...