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Invesco bolsters sales team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... wider institutional network. Invesco Australia head of sales, Eben Bowditch said: "We are delighted to include someone of Jess's calibre to the team. Her depth of local market experience, customer focus, and strong commercial and technical acumen will ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
New Zealand's Financial Services Council (FSC) has commissioned a report on life insurance advice, with Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair John Trowbridge selected as an adviser for the project. Consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The portrait of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget ...

FTSE appoints AU/NZ director

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
Global index provider FTSE has appointed a new director for Australia and New Zealand. Previously an executive director at MSCI, Justin Walsh will assist in expanding the product analytics and research, client distribution, client services and marketing ...

APAC asset managers to invest heavily in data

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
State Street research suggests that asset managers in the Asia-Pacific region will significantly increase their investment in data management and analytics over the next three years. Based on a survey conducted by Longitude Research, which polled 400 ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Total private defined contribution (DC) assets in the US are expected to surpass $6 trillion in 2018, according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Our projections indicate that, by the end of the decade, total private DC ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Retail investors say they have low confidence in Australia's economic outlook and a low appetite for investment risk, but their portfolios don't reflect that view. That's according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)'s latest Retail Investor Survey ...

Chamber Orchestra adds violin to Instrument Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has added a rare and valuable Guarneri violin to its Instrument Fund. The violin was made by Joseph Guarneri filius Andreae in 1714 and is one of the renowned luthier's 250 instruments that survive today. The ACO ...

Retail investors turn to media for financial advice: GSAM survey

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
Only 10% of retail investors largely base their investment decisions on advice given to them by financial planners, a Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) survey has revealed. The most recent Australian Retail Investor Survey, which surveyed over 600 ...

GSAM launches flexible global bond fund in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched the Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond Fund for Australian investors. The Australian dollar-based strategy is designed to provide income and total return through exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio ...