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Boutique managers consistently outperform: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... outperformance." AMG is a global asset management company with equity investments in boutique investment management firms and aggregate funds under management of $638 billion. For more on how boutique fund managers perform relative to other managers ...

4 Corners hires ahead of infrastructure fund launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... year as a joint initiative between its founding team members Michael Morrison, Sarah Shaw and Greg Goodsell and Bennelong Funds Management. The business has a mandate to invest in listed infrastructure companies from around the world, will run a concentrated ...

Westpac to raise capital by divesting BTIM stake

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... investors in a move that will raise up to $700 million and bolster its capital position. Westpac will reduce its stake in the funds management business from its current 59% to between 31% and 40%. "The sale allows the group to release a part of the investment ...

Trio liquidators deny deregistering fraud fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
PPB, the liquidators assigned to the Astarra funds following the 2009 collapse of Trio Capital, have denied rumours they will deregister the Astarra Strategic Fund on June 17. The Astarra Strategic Fund was the primary vehicle, along with the ARP Growth ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Larger superannuation funds appear to have no scale benefit when it comes to getting a good deal on group insurance premiums, the latest study from Rainmaker shows. The Autumn 2015 Rainmaker Superannuation Benchmarking report analysed 15,408 risk options ...

Challenger and Link partner to offer super annuities

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... flexibility." "This strategic alliance will facilitate the provision of guaranteed retirement income solutions to major super funds in Australia. Challenger's products help protect retirees from investment market volatility and inflation and, the risk ...

Advice firm acquires $1bn accountancy business

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... has acquired a majority stake in Accountable Financial Group (AFG), an accountancy firm with a focus on self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and just under $1 billion in assets under advice. Aura Group managing director Calvin Ng said the acquisition was ...

Platform FUM up $660bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... in their Masterfund business, Plan For Life said, with Macquarie, AMP, Commonwealth / Colonial and BT leading the pack. Funds under management on wraps jumped 19.8% following net fund flows of $20.7 billion and the segment now accounts for 39.9% of the ...

FIIG to arrange record bond issue

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... notes, and Series B - minimum of $45 million of six-year fixed-rate notes. SCT founder and chairman Peter Smith said the funds would be used to pay down the company's existing debt and diversify its funding sources. "It gives us greater certainty to ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... the economy should not be lost in the Tax Discussion Paper process. This is the view of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), who recently commissioned Vidler Policy and Research to "provide an economic framework for consideration ...