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Pillar Administration to operate under Acurity software

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... Acurity has finalised, Financial Synergy expects to help administer about four million member accounts with $250 billion in funds under management. Financial Synergy has been active over the past two months, announcing its 2015 version and becoming the ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... was just under $8.5 billion (US$6.1 billion), while it accounted for $3.8 billion (US$2.7 billion) in 2012. "The amount of funds sourced from crowdfunding is set to grow over the next decade, especially as a range of countries has started to amend their ...

BetaShares launches two new funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
BetaShares has launched two new exchange-traded funds, both targeted at US equities. According to BetaShares' statement, the BetaShares Geared US Equity Fund - Currency Hedged fund will "maintain exposure to "the 500 largest securities listed in the ...

Folkestone builds on strong foundations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... tax stood at $7 million, up 122.6% on the same period last year. Earnings per share of 1.1 cents were up 57.1% on FY14 and funds under management rose 12.8% to $917 million. Net asset value per share rose 21.5% to 17.5 cents and the firm raised $42 million ...

Lonsec partners with robo advice provider

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... traditional advice model: it's a complement to it." Ignition Wealth's technology has already been used by a number of super funds to offer online and mobile financial calculators, illustrators and advice tools.

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... remuneration. Transfield is one of the 140 companies that ACSI has engaged with during the last year and Davidson said that funds "have not taken the decision [to divest] lightly." "It is wrong to characterise the divestment as just an ethical or moral ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of what is considered to be comfortable retirement savings ($58,444). This is based on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standards released in March 2015, although ASFA recently updated the standards. Take away the ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Global quantitative manager PanAgora Asset Management will bring its institutional funds management capabilities to the Australian retail market through an agreement struck with Pengana Capital. The deal expands Pengana's investment solutions with a ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... to improve intra-fund advice would be facilitating meetings with advisers in the workplace. "I've been speaking to some funds and I've been told that they're downsizing their intra-fund call centre because they're not getting that many calls," Latto ...

AMP Capital grabs $205m Port Hedland airport

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Melbourne and Launceston airports in Australia and Newcastle Airport in the UK," AMP Capital head of Australia and New Zealand funds Michael Cummings said. "Port Hedland International Airport is a strategically-located asset servicing one of the world's ...