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ETF popularity soars 52%

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
Latest insights from Morningstar show Australia's ETF market grew 52% in 2019, reaching highs of $61 billion in assets. It's a far cry from two decades ago; the industry was worth $3 billion in 2010, and there were only 27 ETF products available ...

All-tech index offers new opps in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
For investors keen to claim their stake in local tech companies early in the wave, financial advisers have a new solution. Today the Australian stock exchange launched a new technology index, the S&P/ASX All Tech index, which in its early days will ...

Focus to acquire stake in MEDIQ

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
Following its acquisition of a stake in Escala Partners, New York-based Focus Financial Partners is set to buy a slice of Melbourne-based MEDIQ Financial Services. Focus has entered a definitive agreement to partner with Ravi Agarwal's MEDIQ Financial ...

JP Morgan appoints two Aussie leads

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
JP Morgan has appointed not one, but two co-heads to lead the firm's investment banking business down under. Jabe Jerram and Simon Ranson have been appointed as co-heads of JP Morgan's investment banking coverage. A JP Morgan spokesperson said the appointments ...

Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
Investment Trends has released the 16th edition of its Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis Report, with Netwealth taking out the top gong. The wealth management platform led the pack for overall platform functionality, followed closely by ...

Global asset manager fills giant impact fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
The doors are officially shut on KKR's USD$1.3 billion global impact fund, with the firm itself tipping in around 10% of the funds invested. KKR has announced the final closing of the KKR Global Impact Fund, which is dedicated to investing in companies ...

VicSuper PM jumps for industry fund

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
The portfolio manager for responsible investments at VicSuper has resigned ahead of the fund's merger with First State Super, jumping ship for an industry super fund. Kim Farrant has been appointed as the head of ESG at Hostplus. She had been with ...

New boutique at Pinnacle

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
A former Morgan Stanley investor has partnered with Sydney multi-boutique Pinnacle Investment Management to launch a new Asia-focused boutique. Reminiscent Capital was piloted by Pinnacle last year, and describes its strategy as discretionary Asia Macro. ...

Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
On the anniversary of the Royal Commission's final report, AFA chief Phil Kewin reflects on the year that was and how the playbook - and rules - changed for advisers. It's been 12 months since the financial services sector was hit with Commissioner ...

Board departure at Sargon subsidiary

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
In another board departure, Sargon subsidiary Tidswell has bid farewell to a board director who chaired the investment committee. Stephen Miller flagged his intention to resign from the trustee board and his committee roles with Sargon in December 2019 ...