Justin Nunan latest to join Legg Mason as Institutional Sales Director

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Legg Mason, one of the world’s largest funds management groups with A$962 billion in funds under management globally, has boosted its Australian institutional sales team with the appointment of Justin... Read more continue reading

RARE expands global reach with appointment by Taiwanese fund manager

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RARE Infrastructure, a global listed infrastructure specialist investment manager, has expanded into Taiwan with the appointment by a leading Taiwanese investment trust company, First Securities Investment Trust Co Ltd (First... Read more continue reading

GAM appoints Owen Job as investment manager

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GAM has appointed Owen Job as investment manager to work on its absolute return fixed income team, with particular focus on macro themes. Owen has spent over 12 years in... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 10 November, 2017

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with US and Eurozone shares down a bit partly due to US tax... Read more continue reading

Perennial Value appoints new Mid Cap and Small Cap Heads

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Perennial Value Management has announced significant career opportunities for two of its Senior Investment Executives. Grant Oshry has been promoted to Head of Mid Caps and Andrew Smith has been... Read more continue reading

AFG announces new referral arrangement with Lifebroker

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Australian Finance Group (ASX:AFG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lifebroker to AFG’s life insurance referral program. The new arrangement will make it easier for AFG’s 2850 brokers to... Read more continue reading

IMF too optimistic on EM debt, says Eaton Vance

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Investors may be wise to take with a grain of salt the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections about the sustainability of emerging market (EM) debt levels, says the global investment... Read more continue reading

ATO gets thumbs up for reducing burden of SMSF event-based reporting

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The SMSF Association welcomes the news that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has followed several of its suggestions to reduce the compliance burden of transfer balance cap (TBC) event reporting... Read more continue reading

APRA and ASIC publish key industry data on life insurance claims

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APRA and ASIC yesterday released initial industry-aggregate results from round one of a new data collection pilot on life insurance claims. Following a review by ASIC last year, the two... Read more continue reading

Will passive save active?

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This month, instead of a market rehash, we’ll turn to the ever-popular active vs. passive debate. Our objective is not to argue that one is better than the other –... Read more continue reading