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SMSF members getting younger

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
More than six in 10 self-managed super fund (SMSF) members are aged between 34 and 54 as Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data shows members are getting younger. According to the latest Trends in SMSFS report from CoreData, the age distribution of members ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors ...

Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
AFA Adviser of the Year Jenny Brown has said that clients are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown ...

Financial services falling behind in online transactions

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
The financial services industry is lagging behind other sectors in online business transactions, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The report -- Summary of IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business ...

Former Macquarie exec to head IRESS division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
IRESS has appointed former Macquarie executive Matthew Rady as its new group executive for its financial markets business. Reporting directly to chief executive officer Andrew Walsh, Rady will be responsible for leading IRESS' financial markets business ...

LaSalle divests Sydney Sofitel Wentworth

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
Global property investor LaSalle Investment Management has agreed to sell its 100% shareholding interest in Sofitel Wentworth Sydney to Frasers Centrepoint. Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney has 436 five-star guest rooms and 45 luxury suites. It is surrounded ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The opportunity for outstanding returns from the world's developing economies may have shifted to frontier markets, according to the latest annual CREATE-Research report. Commissioned by Principal Global Investors, the report is produced from the results ...

Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The largest retail and wholesale fund providers have tightened their grip on the Australian market, reporting double digit growth over the 12 months to end of March 2014. The latest figures from Plan For Life show that overall retail managed funds ended ...

Perennial chief executive steps down

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The chief executive of IOOF-owned fund manager Perennial Investment Partners has stood down after more than a decade with the firm. Lewis Bearman joined Perennial in 2003 and replaced Anthony Patterson as chief executive in May 2012. He is reportedly ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Price hikes widely anticipated in the super fund group risk market have not manifested in any more than a small handful of funds. That is the finding of the 2014 Rainmaker superannuation group insurance survey of 14,834 risk options offered by 206 super ...