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Enhanced investment options and changes to product pricing are making managed accounts more affordable and accessible to lower balance clients, writes Colonial First State’s Bryce Quirk. After alm

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Fund manager recruits new portfolio manager  — 1 minute read 19 July 2021 Pengana Capital Group’s High Conviction Equities Fund has confirmed the appointment of a new portfolio manager. Jeremy Bendeich joins the fund manager’s investment team having previously worked as portfolio manager of the UBS Australian Small Companies Fund and an investment analyst for Colonial First State. Mr Bendeich will work alongside investment manager James McDonald on th...

The firm, which had $5 billion in assets under management, would now be run by Allfrey and Raaz Bhuyan who joined the firm as a principal in 2014, also from Colonial First State. It ran a flagship Australian Share fund which was launched in 2006 followed by Absolute Return then the Dynamic Australian Equity launched in 2009. The Dynamic fund was the winner in the Long/Short Equities category at last year’s Money Management Fund Manager of the Year awards. According to FE Analytics, the Austr...

Smith was a certified compliance professional with the GRC (governance, risk and compliance) Institute and an internationally certified compliance professional with the International Federation of Compliance Associations. The firm had also made two other appointments last month, Colm Moynihan as associate director of fund operations in Australia and Margaret Connolly as request for proposal (RFP) writer. Moynihan joined from PIMCO Investment Management where he was financial reporting and tax m...

Share on Twitter But the thing standing in the 53-year-old’s way is her superannuation balance.  “Its really scary,” she says. “Looking at the balance that I will have at age 60, there is no way I can reasonably retire, or partially retire, and do that comfortably and have any semblance of a lifestyle.” The Melbourne resident has been working since she finished high school 36 years ago. But she has no idea how she’s going to support herself in retirement. Debbie Gunn,...

How to slash the $17,000 super gap between men and women The average superannuation balance for men is consistently $17,000 higher than women but there are strategies to narrow the gap. Money by Lilly Vitorovich Premium Content Subscriber only Australian women are facing a big shortfall in superannuation unless they take action to rebuild their savings for retirement. The average super balance for men is consistently $17,000 higher than women - nearly ...

More funds run by Daves than women Holly Black with Emma Rapaport  |  07 Mar 2021Text size      Female fund managers are still greatly outnumbered by their male counterparts across Europe, analysis of Morningstar Direct data shows. We have looked at how many funds are run by women across the UK, Italy, Spain and France to find that females are in the minority in all markets. Is Australia doing any better? No, unfortunately. In the UK, there are still more funds r...

CFS director chairing CBA incubator — 1 minute read Commonwealth Bank’s incubator x15ventures has made two key appointments, including its first chair.  Ben Heap has been appointed as the venture-scaling entity’s chairman, after most recently being the chair and founder of fintech-focused venture capital fund, H2 Ventures and an independent director at Colonial First State. Previously, Mr Heap has held a number of senior roles across the financial services industry. He was a ...