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Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Investors considering allocating to emerging market debt should hold fire for the time being because the end of stimulus measures in the US will bring a more attractive risk-reward trade-off. That is the view of HSBC Global Asset Management head of ...

Infrastructure valuations at all-time highs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Prices for global infrastructure assets traded so far this year are at the highest level on record, according to the latest analysis by alternatives research house Preqin. More than one-third of transactions completed in the year to date were valued ...

Profit up and new products for ClearView

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
ClearView Wealth has posted a 23% increase in after tax profit for the full year to 30 June while also announcing it is entering the low cost product market for low account balance investors. Underlying net profit after tax grew from $16 million for ...

PROFILE: ME Bank CEO Jamie McPhee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... thrashing England at Lord's for the adult team, as he was diverted by a budding career at London-based merchant bank, Wallace Smith Trust Company. "I didn't know anything about banking," he says, "but the day I walked into this merchant bank I just loved ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

Departing van Eyk execs to assist with handover

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
The three senior van Eyk asset consulting executives who announced their surprise resignations earlier this month, will stay on to assist with the transition, the company has confirmed. As first reported by Financial Standard; Jonathan Ramsay, Jonathan ...

Demand for alternatives sees Blue Sky profits rise

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported a 60% increase in after tax profit of $6.24 million for the full year to 30 June. The alternatives fund manager's revenue grew 69% from $14.2 million to $24.0 million. The company will pay a fully franked ...

EQT adds Dundas Global Equity to mFund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Equity Trustees (EQT) has made the EQT Dundas Global Equity Fund available on the ASX's mFund settlement service. The addition brings the total number of co-branded funds distributed though EQT to 15. EQT Dundas Global Equity invests in 60-80 companies ...

JANA awards mandate to Loomis Sayles

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
JANA has awarded a mandate to Boston-based investment manager Loomis, Sayles & Company. The mandate is the first in this market to be allocated to the Loomis Sayles' Global Disciplined Alpha (GDA) strategy, the fund manager's Australian distributor ...

Centrepoint Alliance returns to growth

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Centrepoint has seen its profits climb back into positive territory in the full year to 30 June reporting an after tax profit of $3.3 million, up from a loss of $7.8 million in 2013. Underlying profit before tax increased 43% to $8.3m. The company has ...