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(Pictured: Phillip Weinberg) BestEx, the Australian provider of outsourced trading services to fund managers and super funds, is to launch a new-style trading ‘venue’ which aims to combine the best of the ‘lit’ and ‘dark pool’ markets. To be launched in Australia in the first quarter of next year, the trading venue, called Block Event, will…

(Pictured: Rob de Silva) Heuristic Investment Solutions expects to eventually start talking to former members of the van Eyk research team in their new ventures, after the collapse resulted in the loss of one of their major platform clients. “We did some work for them for about seven years,” Heuristic co-founder Damian Hennessy said. Heuristic, which…

(Pictured: Adam Lancaster) Two of Ausbil Investment Management’s stalwarts, Adam Lancaster and Mark Reilly, have left the firm to take a break from the industry for a while. Reilly, the chief operating officer, has been replaced by Simon Blakers while a search for Lancaster’s replacement is nearing completion. Blakers, who started at Ausbil last month for…

‘Chief Investment Officer’, the US-based industry magazine, has a bold lead story in its December issue. It says: “By the time you read this sentence, Russell Investments may be no more.” The magazine’s online newsletter, aiCIO, said on November 20: “If you read this in November, Russell will likely remain what its official biography claims…

(Pictured: Connie Mckeage) The new Eureka Report and OneVue will charge broker fees or asset-based fees for the range of investment products on their new investment platform brightday. OneVue Group chief executive officer, Connie Mckeage, said the platform was created for the kinds of investors that have some interaction with professional advisers and accountants but like…

 (Pictured: Philip Hind) Over 150 large APRA funds will be receiving contributions via the SuperStream standard by Christmas, according to the Australian Taxation Office. Currently 100 funds are already receiving contributions through the new system with at least 50 more, including one trustee company for small APRA funds or SAFs, coming on by the end of…

(Pictured: Ashley Porter) by Patrick Liddy Welcome to the Third Industrial Revolution, it will change the nature of superannuation and, in particular, challenge the current choice of platforms for many, if not all, super fund members. The great economic revolutions in history were infrastructure revolutions. What made those revolutions transformational were technological breakthroughs which lead to…

 (Pictured: David Gallagher) By Barrie Dunstan A recent study has raised questions about whether asset consultants and investors can rely on what fund managers tell them about how they manage equity portfolios. A paper by three Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) researchers examined how well Australian equity managers complied with their stated portfolio characteristics…

There are significant differences in investment flows between asset classes by institutional and retail investors, especially over the short-medium term, and differences between the types of research available to each sector, according to a recent study by eVestment. Basically, the study, which is based on eVestment’s European database, shows institutional investors tend to be ahead…

(Pictured: Todd McClone) India will offer the best emerging market opportunities, and perhaps some of the better global investing outcomes overall, over the next five years according to Todd McClone, portfolio manager of William Blair’s $US1.4 billion emerging markets leaders strategy. India is one of the few winners from the current drop in the oil price…