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Signing of Asia Passport agreement expected

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... agreement is known, will make it easier for Australians to invest directly in Asian equities and allow domestic fund managers greater access to outside sources of funding. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden, who has lobbied ...

YBR and Morphic partner with Winston Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
Winston Capital Partners is consolidating its presence as a third party distributor for fund managers after it achieved two key agreements with investment management firms. Winston launched a year ago and has now partnered with Yellow Brick Road to ...

Retirees see silver lining of slowing mining boom

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... the dividend of that investment process in the likes of Woodside." In the medium term, this will be good news for fund managers such as Plato and Tyndall, which offer equities products that optimise yield for low- and no-tax investors. Newcomers to the ...

Finance industry integrity called into question

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... financial literacy experts believed in the integrity of advisers. Investor and consumers' opinion was between these two. Fund managers also ranked poorly, with 25% of respondents saying that they don't operate with integrity, while 26% thought they did. ...

Hedge fund maestro Hintze voices concern over regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... don't understand how hedge funds could ever be responsible for [a systemic collapse]. Hintze does concede that hedge fund managers do have a responsibility to act in the interests of their investors and acknowledges that in the run up to the financial ...

ASIC finds hedge funds pose no systemic risk

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... systemic impact of any problems in the sector. With over US$19 billion in assets, listed equities are the surveyed fund managers' greatest gross exposures, with almost one-third of this being Australian equities. Equity derivatives and G10 sovereign ...

Hedge fund industry calls for consistent global regulatory framework

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... treated previously." AIMA has more than 1,300 corporate members based in over 50 countries. Members include hedge fund managers, fund of hedge funds managers, prime brokers, legal and accounting firms, investors, fund administrators and independent fund ...

Hedge funds fear 'draconian' disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... unamended, representatives of the alternative investment industry have warned. Private equity, venture capital and hedge fund managers are afraid that the disclosure rules, which are part of the Stronger Super reforms, will undermine key elements of ...

Lonsec highlights hedge fund classification concerns

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... prohibit sophisticated 'hedge fund' or 'alternative' investments." Despite the concerns, Lonsec's discussions with fund managers, platform providers and key clients have revealed that provided the investment philosophy and process remained the same ...

Fund managers mislead researchers on reasons for staff turnover

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Senior management teams at some investment managers are deliberately misleading research houses about reasons for staff turnover in a bid to preserve their ratings, according to ProCapital managing director Dr Jerome Lander. The manager selection expert ...