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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 ...

Netwealth offloads advice subsidiary

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
Australian Unity will acquire a Netwealth financial advice firm with $550 million in funds under advice. Bridgeport Financial Services has nine advisers and was established in 1999. Australian Unity chief executive officer of wealth and capital markets ...

AMP Capital veteran begins new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
A former long-standing AMP Capital senior manager has joined an alternatives investment firm as product director. Mark Leslie joined Brookvine and is responsible for client and investor relationships with a particular focus on debt related strategies. ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... fallen in a seemingly random pattern and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis." According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), whatever the ...

Industry fund chief executive departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The long-standing chief executive of an $8.8 billion industry fund has resigned. NGS Super announced Anthony Rodwell-Ball tendered his resignation at the end of 2017, and his time with the fund will finish on 31 March 2018. He will be replaced by general ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... this pre-dates recent market turbulence. Signs remain positive for investment and continued solid jobs growth." All good...except for that reference about the broad-based strength across industries "outside of retail" which, according to NAB chief economist ...

Industry fund on the hunt for investment operations boss

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Following the departure of its investment team's founding member last year, a $43 billion industry fund is recruiting for a chief operating officer, investments - reflecting the goal to significantly boost its assets under management. Cbus created the ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... added. "As time goes by, the world economies have just gotten better. There's hardly a single economy in the world today, except maybe Russia, which is in any kind of recession," Baur said. The US will likely experience 3% to 3.5% growth boosted by the ...

General advice "misleading": Productivity Commission

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
The Productivity Commission is calling for the existing notion of general advice to be scrapped. In its draft report into competition in the Australian financial system, the Productivity Commission argues the use of the term 'advice' should be limited ...

BlackRock names head of financial institution

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
BlackRock appointed a head of financial institutions group to focus on insurance organisations in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Kimberly Kim will begin the newly-created post in April. Kim will be responsible for formulating and executing an integrated ...