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Private equity shift keeping investors busy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... program have averaged more than 10% for investment periods greater than three years. "In 2014 the amount in private equity funds globally - that had been committed and was still to be invested - was $1.2 trillion and $500 billion of that was for buyouts," ...

OneVue wins Centuria property mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
OneVue has been appointed to provide investment administration services for Centuria's property funds. Centuria has been a OneVue client since the firm acquired Computershare's fund registry business, Computershare Fund Services, in 2013. "People often ...

Charter Hall industrial funds swell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... acquired around $700 million in industrial assets since 1 July 2015, bringing the group's total industrial and logistics funds under management to $3.5 billion. The $700 million in acquisitions over the past three months have been acquired by Charter ...

UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns Age 55 Super Fund (SMSF) has joined the Local Government ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
The Australian funds management industry is failing to attract female fund managers, even if research proves that gender diverse investment teams outperform those who are male-only. At a time when the financial services sector is pushing to increase ...

Regulators put super funds on notice

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has flagged new developments in post-retirement as an area it will be monitoring closely. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) investment conference recently ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
UniSuper has crept in to the world's top 100 retirement savings funds, joining four Australian counterparts in the annual list compiled by Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with ...

BetaShares grows distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Louis Crous to the position of chief investment officer. "The ETF market in Australia increased by $1.3 billion in total funds under management last month, the strongest monthly growth that's been recorded to the date," said BetaShares managing director ...

ASIC warns super funds over transparency requirements

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
A survey of superannuation websites by ASIC has found that some super funds are falling short in their requirement to display certain information on their websites. The Superannuation (Industry) Supervision Act (SIS Act) and SIS regulations 2.37 and ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Australia's hedge fund industry through the $100 billion mark, and continue strong growth that saw assets managed by hedge funds increase more than 45% from 2012 to 2014. ASIC data also showed that in 2014, Australia's largest hedge funds reported average ...