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QIC funds added to Federation platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Two QIC managed funds, DDH Global Fixed Interest Alpha Fund and the DDH Balanced Growth Fund, have been added to the Federation Managed Accounts fund. The funds' responsible entity is DDH Graham, and the funds are managed by QIC. Federation described ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
HOSTPLUS' infrastructure investment option for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) is ready to go, pending the approval of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... increasing their allocation to alternative asset classes such as private equity, infrastructure, direct property and hedge funds. Alongside this, regulators are demanding a higher level of transparency for super funds. "Regulators have been particularly ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... way of such an agreement, guaranteeing a continued battle for some time to come: namely, FoFA, and modern awards. Industry funds such as those Whiteley represents rely heavily on the modern awards system to gain new members and hold on to existing ones. ...

Standard Life Investment property specialist joins Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... estate market. Kwang was previously the lead Asia Pacific portfolio manager for Standard Life Investments' global real estate funds. Before that he served as senior portfolio manager in Asia for Australian fund manager Perennial Investment Partners. ...

AIMA appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... to Kima, he was head of Australasian equities for Rand Merchant Bank, overseeing the Asian proprietary trading, fund of funds, ETFs and structured products divisions. He has also held senior equity proprietary trading, derivatives, structuring and supervisory ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... first interest rate hike are merely that, expectations. You won't read about the sooner-rather-than-later hike in the fed funds rate in last night's explanations for why Wall Street did what it did - fall big time. It gave back all the gains of Independence ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Industry super funds could face stricter rules around block charging members for financial advice if the Senate blocks the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has said. Singling out exemptions ...

ASIC warns fund managers to fix fee disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... disclosure of fees and costs, which in some instances meant fees and costs relating to underlying investment vehicles within funds were simply not being disclosed. It also found instances of incorrectly disclosing fees net of tax and inconsistent disclosure ...

GESB outsources admin to Link Group

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... members have come to expect from GESB." A GESB has 335,000 members and 370,000 accounts and approximately $18 billion in funds under management.