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HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... is strategically important for the HSBC Group because Australia is a net exporter of wealth. Australia's total superannuation market sector is projected to reach $3.3 trillion by 2017 and we expect the demand for international assets to increase significantly," ...

REST targets member TFNs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
REST Super, the $14 billion super fund for the retail industry, helped at least 200,000 of its members avoid paying undue tax under the 'No TFN Tax' ruling, and hopes to help 60,000 more through an internal TFN reporting drive. Under the 'No TFN Tax' ...

Plato wins OptiMix mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Boutique fund manager Plato Investment Management has been appointed as an OptiMix Australian Equities manager. "[Plato's] addition to the OptiMix Wholesale Australian shares portfolio will improve the alpha potential and the use of short positions ...

ING buys into Turkish pension market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Global Dutch financial institution ING Group purchased Turkey's first and only voluntary pension fund, Oyak Emeklilik for $180 million to tap into the country's pension market. Previously owned by OYAK Group and established in 2003, Oyak Emeklilik has ...

High Net Worth wealth tops $42tr

Lord Stern launches carbon ratings

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
IDEAglobal Group, a company whose vice-chairman is Lord Stern, has just launched the Carbon Ratings Agency (CRA) service for investors and companies participating in the carbon market. The CRA ratings will operate similarly to credit ratings but focus ...

Deloitte warns against split regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... non-mortgage lenders. Phil Hardy, Deloitte banking and finance specialist, said the firm was concerned minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry's proposal would mean mortgages might be regulated nationally but non-mortgage lenders ...

Super fund reporting to go online: ASIC

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
The country's financial regulator ASIC is giving super funds the go ahead to use the web as their default method of delivering annual fund information to members, as long as certain conditions are met. "We have decided that for this year we will allow ...

TRS pumps $1.26bn into PE

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
US-based Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) pours $1.26 billion of new funds into private equity after its $2.3 billion investment in the sector turned to be a money spinner returning 23 per cent in the year to March. TRS confirms ...

Retail super weigh in on transparency debate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
Retail super fund providers are backing the introduction of a standardised super fund performance table, as proposed by the ISN, but on certain conditions. On Wednesday, Industry Super Network (ISN) executive manager, David Whiteley called for the Australian ...