ARCO Absolute Return Fund added to BT Panorama platform

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The ARCO Absolute Return Fund has been added to the BT Panorama platform, providing more advisers and their clients with access to the investment manager’s 10 year track record of managing... Read more continue reading

RARE expands distribution and investment team

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RARE Infrastructure, a specialist global listed infrastructure investment manager, has made two senior appointments across its distribution team. Nick O’Hare has been appointed as Business Development Manager for Victoria and... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 19 October, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While share markets had a great bounce from oversold levels early in the last week they fell back to varying degrees... Read more continue reading

Why ASIC is stopping ICOs

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ASIC has recently stopped a number of retail initial coin offerings and token generation events (ICOs), has taken action in respect of a completed ICO and has even issued a... Read more continue reading

Slowest Chinese economic growth in 9½ years

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Chinese economic data The Chinese economy grew at a 6.5 per cent annual rate in the September quarter (forecast: +6.6 per cent), down from 6.7 per cent in the June quarter... Read more continue reading

ASIC updates guidance as crowd-sourced funding regime extends to proprietary companies

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ASIC has released updated regulatory guides to coincide with the extension of the crowd-sourced funding (CSF) framework to eligible proprietary companies. This starts on 19 October 2018. ASIC has amended... Read more continue reading

MyState calls for regulation changes to encourage bank competition

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MyState Limited reported a net profit after tax of $31.5 million for the year ended 30 June 2018, up 4.6% on the year before. This strong result was supported by... Read more continue reading

TH Real Estate expands local Commercial Real Estate debt team with new analyst

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Global real estate investment manager TH Real Estate has announced the appointment of Nicholas Lim as Analyst, Debt Strategies, in Australia, to support the continued growth of the Asia Pacific... Read more continue reading

Low cost multi-asset funds more volatile in down markets

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Investors in low cost multi-asset funds are more likely to experience higher volatility when markets decline, according to new research by Zenith. In its 2018 Multi Asset Diversified Review of... Read more continue reading

JBWere full member of RIAA

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JBWere has become a full member of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), the peak industry body representing responsible, ethical and impact investors across Australia and New Zealand. RIAA focuses... Read more continue reading