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Tasplan and RBF to merge

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
The Tasmanian government has announced its support for a single superannuation fund responsible for the accounts of Tasplan, Quadrant and the RBF Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme. RBF had $4.9 billion in funds under management as of 30 June 2014, Tasplan ...

FSC Annual Conference kicks off August 5

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... financial services industry. The event includes a busy social calendar presenting opportunities to network with executives and let your hair down with your colleagues. Registrations are still open and more detail can be found here.

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... grass isn't always greener somewhere else. "I've always set my stock by doing a superb job of whatever I'm doing right now and let the future worry about itself rather than plotting and scheming where I might be in three or five years' time." Braga left ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Let's talk about managed accounts

A joke that's done the rounds on managed accounts is that they've been "the next big thing" for two decades running. Launched in the mid-1990s, managed accounts were the sparkly space age pen of investment portfolios. Just one slight hitch - pencils ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... financial markets look at the data - as the Fed lady advices - and see that the US economy is not evolving as the Fed expects. Let's count the ways: The Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey released last night showed the index more than halving to ...

LaSalle sells interest in Sydney office building

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
LaSalle Investment Management has sold its 100% interest in a Sydney office building for $91.9 million. LaSalle sold the investment property on behalf of its LaSalle Asia Opportunity Fund IV (LAOF IV) to a client of UBS Grocon. The asset was acquired ...

Industry funds embrace board independence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Top industry funds have embraced the proposal to introduce a third of independent directors to their boards and see it as an opportunity to add skills and improve governance. Despite opposition from Industry Super Australia (ISA), at least three of ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... up 15.2% this year to date and it's still 80.9% above what it was 12 months ago would be buried in paragraph 10 or 12. Why let the facts get in the way of a good yarn indeed. The "good" negative yarns being, China's economy is in trouble now, its efforts ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... could load the referendum dice in favour of a no vote. I'll be my right eyeballs that the decision would be so easy - just let Greece go (let it go, let it go) - were it not for that instinct called self-preservation. Like I ranted some days back, it ...