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UBS joins mFund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... Settlement Service. The addition of UBS expands mFund's distribution network to 11 distributors, 10 issuers representing 75 funds and 22 fund managers and nine registrar service providers. "mFund is an important innovation and UBS is delighted to be ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... anticipates..." I don't know. "...the Committee will at some point begin considering an increase in the target range for the federal funds rate on a meeting-by-meeting basis", "on the basis of incoming data". This, to me, is Janet's main message in her ...

Blue Sky reports $2.6 million profit

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... Founder and managing director Mark Sowerby said the company continued to benefit from strong investment performance across the funds Blue Sky manages, balance sheet exposure to those funds, and investor demand for alternative assets. "Investor allocations ...

Big four banks missing out on customer wealth management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... director Norman Morris believes the lag in wealth management business is due to leakage to the SMSF sector and industry funds. "With superannuation being the major component of wealth management, the big banks are facing tough competition from the trend ...

Women in Super launches executive education scholarships

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... at the Women in Super lunch in Sydney last week where Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), was the guest speaker. To enquire about the scholarships, go to www.womeninsuper.com.au.

IFS opens unlisted infrastructure assets to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... investors, via a vehicle managed by Industry Fund Services (IFS) The IFS Infrastructure Investment Model pools retail investors' funds and then invests them in the IFM Australian Infrastructure Wholesale Fund (IFM Fund), an open-ended fund available ...

Ball rolling in Wilson HTM spin-off deal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... platform and content basis which will bring further opportunities over time. "WIG's strategy will be to then focus on its funds management businesses through Pinnacle Investment Management and the Priority Funds. WIG shareholders will benefit through ...

UBS launches ethical ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
UBS Global Asset Management has launched six ETFs aimed at "ethical" investors. The new funds track the MSCI indices that exclude access to tobacco products as well as cluster bombs, landmines, depleted uranium, and chemical and biological weapons. ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... fund members and the political agendas of their sponsoring trade union. Which, perhaps, explains why so few industry super funds were prepared to go on record to discuss the issue. REST Industry Super chief executive Damian Hill said that while he believed ...

Centuria reports 6.6% growth in net assets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... fully-franked dividend of 2c, to be paid on 26 March. Strategic goals reached during the period include Centuria's listed property funds management division's IPO of the $143 million Centuria Metropolitan REIT, $37 million sale of Over Fifty Insurance ...