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BlackRock to combine insto and retail distribution teams

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
BlackRock Australia has merged its institutional and retail distribution teams and made senior hires from Vanguard, FIIG Securities, Rothschild and BT Financial Group. Following the merger of the two teams, Jason Collins has taken on an expanded role ...

AMG CEO says alpha is all about people

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
Chief executive of the NYSE-listed, $950 billion Affiliated Managers Group, Sean Healey, says the secret to his firm's success was recognising people and culture drive alpha generation. Healey, who joined AMG in 1995 from Goldman Sachs, was visiting ...

Active winning out in down markets: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
Despite the rising prominence of passive strategies, active management remains a cornerstone of Australian investment. This is the key finding of new research from the 2016 MFS Active Management Sentiment report, conducted by CoreData based on a survey ...

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
Customer expectations have irrevocably shifted in the era of "service aggregation" and super funds ignore this at their peril, according to Telesign chief executive Aled Miles. Speaking at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference ...

SG Hiscock hires EQT exec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
SG Hiscock & Company has appointed a new general manager - strategy and operations. Rowena Cole was previously general manager - strategy and development, corporate trustee services at Equity Trustees. Prior to that, she was EQT's national manager ...

Hedge fund goes retail with performance-only fee structure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
A previously exclusive absolute return fund has opened to retail investors, with a fee structure based solely on performance. Harvest Lane Asset Management's fund has returned 11.67% per annum after fees since July 1, 2013. While it isn't benchmarked ...

Omega hires Vanguard, NAB vets

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
Omega Global Investors has appointed a portfolio manager and an investment research analyst. Prior to Omega, portfolio manager Evelyne Meier was a quantitative analyst at Triple 3 Investment Management and a senior analyst at Vanguard. Omega co-founder ...

AMP Capital execs depart in investment shake-up

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
AMP Capital has made major changes to its global equities and fixed income businesses. As part of the restructure, AMP Capital's current head of macro Ilan Dekell will take control of all macro and core portfolio management functions, while head of ...

Contango LIC chair departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
The chair of Contango Income Generator has decided against seeking re-election. In an ASX statement, the board thanked Ian Ferres for his tenure as chair and his contribution to the successful listing of the company in 2015. The statement continued ...

Perpetual awards global equity mandates

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
Perpetual Private has awarded new global growth and value equity mandates. BNP Paribas global equity partners Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss (BHMS) and Carnegie Asset Management (Carnegie) will manage assets for Perpetual Private's investments ...