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Instos offer advice at a loss to drive product sales: EY

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions have undervalued advice for decades by offering it at a loss to lead clients into product sales, Ernst & Young (EY) have said in their submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). EY argued that decades old industry ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
Australia's largest financial services institutions have argued that vertical integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The technology behind managed discretionary accounts (MDA) allows small investment players to act as if they had the scale of the industry's large institutions, SS&C Technologies head of Australia and New Zealand Nadine Moore said. Speaking at the inaugural ...

A quarter of global instos plan to grow alternatives investment teams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
More than a quarter of global institutional investors expect to grow their alternative investment teams over the next two years, according to the latest survey by Preqin. The specialist research house asked 380 global institutions who are active in ...

APRA releases additional requirements for large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the updated framework for the supervision of large financial institutions, but will defer a decision on its final implementation until the end of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... granular requirements in terms of risk management and reporting," he said. He also stressed the increasing sophistication of instos: "Investors want to understand and consolidate their underlying exposure, and therefore risk, according to different sectors ...

No difference between retail and insto: RARE

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... investors is particularly pertinent in the world of infrastructure investment, which has traditionally been the domain of large instos. However, organisations like RARE, who specialise in listed infrastructure, are targeting the retail market. While ...

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Investment consultant Towers Watson has thrown its support behind smart beta approaches to investment, recommending institutional investors revisit their equity strategies to incorporate the lower cost products. In a new publication, Global equity investing ...

OneVentures launches second fund for HNWs and instos

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Australian venture capital firm, OneVentures has launched the OneVentures Innovation and Growth Fund II, seeking to raise $100 million from institutional investors and high net worth (HNW) individuals over the next 12 months. The fund will invest in ...

Instos lose chasing high hedge fund returns

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
Institutional investors are shooting themselves in the foot by pressuring managers running their hedge fund mandates to chase broad market returns, according to a leading US hedge fund manager. Peak6 Advisors chief executive and chief investment officer ...