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Industry bodies must avoid duplicating work: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... duplicating the same work and consider merging if duplication is taking place, according to Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos. "I think more and more there is a risk that industry bodies are duplicating ...

Folkestone to increase holding in REIT

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... in the Folkestone Education Trust," managing director Greg Paramor said. He added that the move will grow Folkestone's "funds management platform and investing in select development opportunities on its balance sheet or co-investing in its development ...

Equip-AustSuper partnership draws interest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... already in the pipeline. As well as seeing Equip take over AustralianSuper's DB scheme, the partnership will also see the two funds jointly bid when new DB schemes go to tender. "Since it was announced less than a week ago, there's already a significant ...

Anne-Marie Corboy: A career in retrospect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Anne-Marie Corboy announced that she would be standing down after 16 years at the helm of one of Australia's largest super funds. James Fernyhough caught up with her to hear her thoughts on HESTA's evolution, the purpose of superannuation, and why the ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... rounded on alpha gatherers. Recent data from S&P Dow Jones Indices showed that the vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmarks across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years. ...

Hedge fund growth problem not helped by new products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... nearly US$956 billion in assets under management and 65 institutional investors with over US$220 billion allocated to hedge funds. Topics covered in the survey include managers' strategies to achieve growth, infrastructure investments, expenses and cybersecurity. ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Australian super funds are fast out-growing the domestic real estate market and the largest will soon join the likes of AustralianSuper and the Future Fund in acquiring large overseas assets directly, according to real estate investment manager TIAA ...

Stephen Godfrey awarded FPA adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... strategic client review process." Godfrey is a private client adviser specialising in investment management, self-managed super funds, tax management and investment and wealth entities. The state winners for the FPA award were Infinity Wealth Solutions ...

ASIC begins legal action against LM Investment Management

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... directors in signing off on a series of loans to Maddison Estate, which Drake owned and controlled, in 2011 and 2012. MPF loaned funds to Maddison Estate to fund a property development on the Gold Coast, of which Drake was the sole director as well as ...

Vanguard launches hedged and unhedged intl ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
Two new international shares exchange traded funds (ETF) from Vanguard have begun trading on the ASX. The Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (ASX: VGS) and the Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares (hedged) ETF (ASX:VGAD) offer investors ...