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Bennelong partners 4 Corners to offer infrastructure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
Bennelong Funds Management recently announced it will partner a global infrastructure investment manager with the mandate to invest in listed infrastructure companies from around the world. The partnership with 4 Corners Infrastructure, Bennelong's ...

Appetite for managed funds growing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
Appetite for managed funds is showing signs of increasing with almost half of investors saying they are considering them, according to Investment Trends. The researcher's '2014 Investor Product Needs Report' reveals that 46% of investors are open to ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... opinion piece Bowen wrote in News Limited media on 11 April citing a research report from the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA). In the piece he highlighted that there are 475 people with super balances in excess of $10 million who ...

AMP Capital appoints distribution head

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... overall responsibility for the sales of AMP Capital's global listed and unlisted infrastructure, global REITs and hedge funds. Richard Shields, who was managing director for the UK, Europe and Middle East will now focus primarily on the Middle East. ...

BetaShares launches ASX-listed hedge fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares listed a hedge fund to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund will invest its assets into cash and sell equity index futures contracts (ASX ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Investors' search for yield in the current low rate, low-return perfect storm has boosted hedge fund inflows. Funds under management for the sector were up 21.7% for the two years to December 2014, according to Rainmaker Data. But a great idea, an obscure ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... policy via balance sheet measures. The combined Japanese and European 'QE' will be very substantial. The extent to which such funds will flow across borders will depend on which sorts of investors are 'displaced' from their sovereign debt holdings and ...

Grattan issues new report on super fees

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... arguing that "superannuation could be run for much less than the [aggregate] $16 billion currently charged by APRA regulated funds". Failure to improve the system's efficiency could cost future retirees 5% or $40,000 of their potential nest egg, explained ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Lack of investment activism among superannuation funds largely comes down to size, but "it is just a matter of time before the age of activism dawns in Australia as well," Credit Suisse said. The investment bank noted in a research piece that "the behemoths ...

Life insurance risk inflows reach $14.2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... both individual risk lump sum and risk income insurances plus group risk insurance. Statistics in the report represented funds that flow through life companies' statutory funds, excluding funds that flow through unit trusts and master funds. The report ...