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ASIC review to streamline IDPS rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... fundraising, financial product disclosure and managed investment provisions of the Act and apply appropriate conditions on AFS licenses and requirements and conditions for relief to IDPS and IDPS-like schemes. To download ASIC's policy propsal paper ...

Sentry and Epic forge alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
... Epic, the two groups will combine administrative functions and, while the new Sentry Group Australia entity will hold the two AFS licenses, each company will continue to operate under their individual license. Combined, authorised representatives will ...

Advisers need to think small for big profits

... inflows in a few years simply by focussing on the end client outcome. "And they're coming to Australia," he warned. Dani Peer of AFS echoed the sentiments, saying fund managers needed an attitude change. "Most products are similar, so the relationship ...

ING launches new research arm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
ING has spun off its long-running research arm into a separate company, Financial Facts, aiming to provide client and adviser-focused research for advisers, fund managers and other research houses. Beginning as an in-house capability for RetireInvest ...

AFS increases stake in Salisbury

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
AFS has acquired a 'strategic stake' The Salisbury Group (TSG) dealership, adding 30 financial planning practices to its books and expanding its Funds Under Advice (FUA) to $6 billion. The full extent of the increase is unclear, as AFS chief executive ...

BlackRock gets rolling with Citi

... past 15 months, BlackRock has signed up 25 dealer groups, including Professional Investment Services (PIS), Count Financial, AFS and now Citigroup. Spokesman Cormac Hefernan said they have 12 more in the pipeline which they hope to finalise by the end ...

Pengana to ride the UK REIT wave

Fund manager Pengana Capital has timed the expansion of its London base to coincide with the opening of the real estate investment trust (REIT) market in the UK and the rest of Western Europe. Pengana's UK based director, Stuart Stuckey, hired two European ...

AFS reflects on a good year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
On the back of a year which saw Australian Financial Services (AFS) return to being 100 per cent adviser owned, the dealer group announced it had also achieved 40 per cent growth in profitability and finished the year with 21 additional practices. The ...

Regulators discuss streamlining some supervision operations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... duplications in licensing. "Almost all APRA-regulated authorised deposit-taking institutions, general insurers and life insurers hold AFS licenses. It appears that around half of APRA's licensed superannuation trustees also hold AFS licenses," the regulators ...

Beware of hedge risk: Deloitte

Many hedge fund providers are not using best-practice guidelines such as external administrators or independent valuations of their assets, according to the latest global hedge fund industry survey by Deloitte. According to Deloitte, which surveyed ...