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Queensland funds offer members help

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
ESI Super and SPEC Super have developed a dedicated Flood Relief Package that offers information and advice to members who have been affected by the floods. The package includes a free financial assistance webinar offering information on financial issues ...

Rise of in-house fund mgmt a game changer

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... around the latter's reason to exist, potentially creating concerns for other state owned fund managers including VFMC and Funds SA. QIC paid a dividend of $13.2 million to the Queensland government, down from $18 million in the preceding year - but that ...

ESI Super and SPEC Super confirm merger

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
ESI Super and SPEC Super have agreed to merge and create a $3.4 billion fund. The merger was flagged in April this year and is expected to be completed by March next year. The decision follows Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Minter Ellison and KPMG completing ...

Macquarie exec joins DNR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Ex-Macquarie Bank executive director Matt Long has joined boutique asset manager Dalton Nicol Reid as head of strategic development. Long, who started with Dalton Nicol Reid in the newly created role will be broadening the group's distribution platform ...

SMSFs snap up blue chip shares

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Self-managed super fund trustees are now placing blue chip shares on the top of their buying list after brushing off last year's market carnage, research shows. With markets on an upward trajectory and investor sentiment turning towards the positive ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Australians can access superannuation-related financial advice more easily under regulatory changes announced yesterday, but the industry is split between those that believe ASIC's move benefits the public while others predict it's a "disaster in the ...

Conflicts not all bad: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
In a major submission to APRA, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has said that fighting for the elimination of conflicts of interest can be self-defeating. Instead, the peak interest group for not-for-profit super funds said ...

Instos cool on direct infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
Global institutional investors are snubbing direct infrastructure projects and fund-of-fund strategies for distressed assets, private equity and hedge funds in the next 12 to 24 months, according to a survey. The Alternative Investment Summit Industry ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Nearly one third of sovereign wealth funds that control over $7 trillion in assets are aiming to increase their investments in equity markets during the second half of 2009, new figures show. According to a survey by FD, 70 per cent of the hedge funds ...

No standards, no deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
Eight out of ten UK pension funds said they would favour a hedge fund manager who has complied with the Hedge Fund Best Practice Standards, according to a KPMG survey. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the Hedge Fund Working Group (HFWG). ...