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Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... notes the rise of fintech startups like Robinhood, which offer free solutions to trading customers, and overseas fund managers considering direct-to-consumer platform offerings with low basis-point investment fees and close-to-zero administrative costs. ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of information for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues of the companies that it invests in through fund managers. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson told Financial Standard that the organisation engages with companies on behalf of its ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... establish. "We already had relationships with some of the industry funds," he recalls, "and we were talking to the fund managers like Greg Perry, Chris Cuffe and Peter Morgan, trying to get them to put trades through our business. We had to sell them ...

OneVue wins ChinaAMC mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the BNP Paribas Securities Services' contract to outsource its unit registry facility earlier this year, two other fund managers with 20 additional funds were on boarded recently and we are in the process of transitioning another seven fund managers ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... positioned. Our $2.5 trillion pool of managed funds is the largest in Asia and the third largest in the world. Our fund managers are highly skilled, competitive and efficient. This comparative advantage has the potential to become a major export. However ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank reforms in the United States and the European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive have heightened the regulatory environment that funds are facing. A recent Financial Times investigation found ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
Alpha Fund Managers has become the first Australian investor in a global asset manager's absolute return bond fund. Standard Life Investments' Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Trust aims to return cash plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... because of their more coherent pricing structure," he added. Prugue said that a more appropriate vehicle for active fund managers to access the retail market would be through mFund or through actively managed ETFs. Like other managers, Lazard would consider ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... Sherman said that there is "strong growth towards model portfolio ETFs. "Investors are using models from renowned fund managers or research houses to build their own diversified portfolios," he said. "Most of the times, they don't take it to the letter ...

New Calastone service automates distribution processing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... Developed specifically for Australia, the service enables full straight-through-processing interoperability between fund managers and platform investors allowing them to use existing infrastructure and benefit through reduced operational risk and cost. ...