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MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

Partners unveils new legal division

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
Victoria-based financial services firm Partners has expanded its operations to the legal sector with the appointment of Peter Gandolfo as managing director of its new legal arm, Partners Legal. Gandolfo is a barrister, solicitor and former president ...

Back to school for MA providers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
It may soon be school season for the Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) members as the professional body prepares to uncover an education program to promote awareness of the managed accounts (MA) industry. According to Tracy Byrne, IMAP ...

Rainmaker merges with MC Marketing Concepts

Wealth management industry research, media and communications group Rainmaker has merged with financial services strategic marketing company MC Marketing Concepts. The Rainmaker Group, which publishes Financial Standard, marks the start of the year ...

Standing in the eye of the storm

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
The once established "Centro" name is now often synonymous with the words "problematic", "collapsed" and "embattled", but other property fund managers have begun to see silver linings following the Centro meltdown. Listed property funds manager, Aspen ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

Industry funds not holding up transfers: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has rejected criticism by some financial planners that industry super funds are taking too long to process superannuation transfers. AIST's chief executive officer, Fiona Reynolds, said the ...

The secret to MTAA's success

While some super funds like to keep their investment secrets close to their chests, top-ranked MTAA Super gives them all away in a handbook that outlines the investment strategies behind their outperformance in the past ten years. Inundated with regular ...

NZ planners regs improve fee transparency

New Zealand planners have received three-month notice to follow tighter rules on fee disclosure after a new government ruling was announced this week. NZ Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel said that investment advisers will now be required to provide ...

All aboard SimCorp Xpress

Exotic instruments could soon become familiar territory to Australian-based fund managers after software specialist SimCorp expanded XpressInstruments, a software module for alternative investments. Visiting Australia last week, SimCorp's global chief ...