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Agricultural investors create $10 million VC fund

DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016

A joint agricultural investment initiative between diversified financial services group Findex and the National Farmers' Federation is progressing toward the launch of a $10 million venture capital fund. The fund, created by joint venture SproutX and ...

Unlicensed property investor jailed for six years

ALEX BURKE | TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016

A property investor has been jailed for six years and three months following an ASIC investigation. Barry Patrick was sentenced by the County Court of Victoria, having been found guilty of three charges of obtaining property by deception, two charges ...

Rethinking risk through goals-based investing

ALEX BURKE | TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016

With the retirement income debate reaching an industry fever pitch, Alex Burke investigates a new approach to portfolio construction that aims to manage both sequence and longevity risk simultaneously. If you ask industry consultant John Wiseman, the ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER | WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016

Superannuation has recently received plenty of oxygen in the political atmosphere and fund disclosure is yet another bubble quickly rising. As super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups ...

First clean energy seed fund launched

KERRIE SYDEE | MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016

Specialist investment manager, Artesian Venture Partners, has launched Australia's first Clean Energy Seed Fund, which includes a $10 million commitment from the new $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund. The $20 million seed fund will focus on discovering ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016

The promise of outsized - but very infrequent - returns in financial markets can, like casinos, lead investors to trade in ways that destroys their wealth. That's the view of Capital Fund Management president Philippe Jordan who says investors who get ...

Younger Australians taking up SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016

Three quarters of new SMSF members are aged below 55 and yield an average age of 46 years according to the latest industry research from Rainmaker. The data presents a strategic shift in the sector where most SMSFs are being established by younger people ...

Macquarie cops fine over van Eyk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016

Macquarie Group has been fined by ASIC following its admission to the mismanagement of the van Eyk Blueprint International Shares Fund (VBI Fund). On Tuesday, the NSW Supreme Court ordered Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) to pay $400,000 to the ...

First State Super awards $1.6bn mandate

ALEX BURKE | TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016

First State Super has awarded a $1.6 billion emerging market equities mandate. Neuberger Berman will provide systematic exposure to selected risk premia in emerging market equities for the $71 billion, 759,000-member super fund. Neuberger Berman Australia ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE | MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016

Globally the number of females represented on financial services boards continues to grow, but a stagnancy at the executive level is disenfranchising millennials as they get to grips with a workplace stuck in its gendered past. Oliver Wyman's 2016 Women ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:01PM

Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI | 11:30AM

The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:13PM

L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 11:50AM

Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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