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Property spruiker banned for providing unlawful advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The Supreme Court of NSW has restrained a property business for providing unlawful advice to clients who wanted to purchase investment properties through an SMSF. The judge found that Park Trent Properties Group had been unlawfully carrying on a financial ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The government has said it will grant the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) additional powers to effectively regulate the financial services sector. More than 10 months after the release of FSI chairman David Murray's final report ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Future Fund has issued a warning to investors that the high returns of the past few years are unlikely to continue in the medium term. The latest update shows the Future Fund's investment strategy has almost doubled the value of original government ...

Perpetual sees institutional outflows

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Perpetual has experienced net outflows of around $700 million as a result of institutional investors rebalancing funds away from Australian equities. The fund manager announced that its funds under management as at 30 September 2015 were $28.4 billion ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

DomaCom added to managedaccounts.com.au

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Managedaccounts.com.au has added fractional property fund manager DomaCom to its platform. Managed accounts offer portfolios created to meet specific investment needs but until now, real property has been under-represented on platforms. "Property is ...

New website gives advisers company ESG ratings

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
CAER has launched a new website that allows financial advisers to view the researcher's environmental, social land governance ratings for more than 300 Australian and New Zealand companies at the click of a button. Coinciding with Ethical Investment ...

Voting opens on SelectingSuper Consumer Choice award

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Voting has opened for the SelectingSuper 2015 Consumer Choice award division of the SelectingSuper fund and product awards. This is the third year SelectingSuper has run the Consumer Choice award, with past winners being UniSuper in 2013 and EnergySuper ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...

Senior fund manager leaves AMP Capital for Ausbil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Ausbil Investment Management has hired a senior portfolio manager from AMP Capital. Gian Pandit has joined the Sydney-based firm as deputy head of equities. He will be part of the portfolio construction committee along with chief executive officer and ...