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FMA questions NZ banks over Aussie advice scandals

by David Chaplin The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has contacted local subsidiaries of Australian banks in the wake of the most recent financial advice scandals to hit across the Tasman. According to Kirsty Campbell, FMA head of supervision, the regulator has been “having conversations” with Australian-owned NZ financial institutions following a string of high-profile investigations…

Investor Strategy News | 26th Apr 2015 | More
Media fills investment spot as Wu arrives at State Super

(Pictured: Justin Nunan) Media Super has recruited Justin Nunan, head of treasury sales at ME Bank, as its new investment manager, following the departure of Charles Wu last month. Wu has taken a senior investment strategist role at NSW State Super (STC), whose portfolios are being merged with those of NSW Treasury Corporation and NSW WorkCover…

Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
Youngman joins Ausbil to run insto business

(Pictured: Ross Youngman) Ausbil Investment Management has hired experienced fund manager Ross Youngman as head of institutional business, following the departure late last year of its long-time marketer Adam Lancaster. Youngman was co-founder, with Chris Selth, of the Five Oceans Asset Management global boutique which shut its doors last year after eight years of operations. Like…

Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
MainstreamBPO moves towards ASX listing

(Pictured: Byram Johnston) MainstreamBPO, the independent fund administrator for about 350 funds, has appointed its corporate and legal advisors for a planned ASX listing later this year. The size and timing of the capital raising are not yet known. While not exactly a fintech start-up, MainstreamBPO should attract some interest from investors who have been pouring…

Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
Australia’s housing boom: more a ripple than a bubble

by Jimmy Louca, Senior Economist, QIC Low interest rates have pumped up Australian house prices, leading to concerns that not only is housing across the nation becoming less affordable, but the boom will meet its eventual bust. However, we believe, the housing cycle over the next few years is likely to play out differently from this…

Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
  • The case for CPI bonds in outcome-oriented strategies

    (Pictured: Tamar Hamlyn) Inflation-linked securities – CPI bonds – are likely to attract renewed interest because of the demographic shift happening in the super industry as it approaches the baby-boomers’ decumulation phase of their investment spans. Super funds should take note too. Tamar Hamlyn, a principal of fixed interest specialist Ardea Investment Management, has an interesting…

    Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
    Northern Trust sets up asset management office

    (Pictured: Steve Potter) After years of servicing Australia and New Zealand, successfully, with a fly-in/fly-out team, Northern Trust Asset Management has opened a three-person office in Melbourne under regional senior vice president for institutional business and strategy, Bert Rebelo, who will relocate from Hong Kong. Rebelo, who has been with Northern Trust for about 16 years…

    Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
    SS&C tops up profile with NZ purchase

    (Pictured: Nadine Moore) Financial systems provider SS&C Technologies, which last December bought most of the business of DST International in Australia, has expanded its Australasian reach with the purchase of its enterprise reporting and investment portal platform by Trustee Executors of New Zealand.  The NZ firm had been a long-standing client of DST’s institutional back-office system…

    Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
    Industry luminaries set for Chant West Awards

    (Pictured: Andrea West) An impressive array of industry and political heavyweights are to attend the third annual Chant West Super Fund Awards on May 6.  The Prime Minister, Mr Abbott, will present the Super Fund of the Year Award via video at the black-tie dinner. The awards night will be directed by MC Don Luke, the…

    Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
    Australia a key part of BNP Paribas global push

    (Pictured: Patrick Colle) BNP Paribas Securities Services has invested more in Australia, in terms of people and systems, than in any other country in the past few years, Patrick Colle, the Paris-based chief executive told a media briefing last week. The firm is now getting about half of all new business from outside Europe. Colle said…

    Investor Strategy News | 19th Apr 2015 | More
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