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Perpetual jettisons Guardian Trust

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
Perpetual has sold The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company to Complectus for NZ$68.5 million ($63.3 million). The move follows Perpetual's December 2013 acquisition of The Trust Company which owned Guardian Trust. Perpetual said The New Zealand business ...

Advisers show overwhelming support for ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
A recent State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) seminar has revealed that Australian financial planners overwhelmingly support the use of exchange traded funds. A survey of attendees at SSgA's "Strategies for Accessing International Investment Opportunities" ...

BTIM appoints Investa chair to board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
BT Investment Management has appointed Deborah Page as an independent non-executive director to its board. Page is currently the chairman of Investa Listed Funds Management and is a non-executive director of Service Stream, Australian Renewable Fuels ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The size at which a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) becomes a viable alternative to regular funds may be considerably higher than the industry currently estimates due to the impact of scale on performance. The industry typically advises that ...

Legg Mason hires sales director from JPM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Legg Mason has appointed former JP Morgan executive Colin Taylor as director of sales. Based in Melbourne, Taylor will promote Legg Mason's products and affiliate fund managers under Legg Mason's hybrid distribution structure that encompasses both institutional ...

William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
US fund manager William Blair has launched its first unit trusts to Australian institutional and wholesale investors. The Global Leaders Equity Fund, Emerging Markets Leaders Equity Fund and Dynamic Diversified Allocation Fund were selected from William ...

Plato partners Milliman to offer retiree income solution

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Plato Investment Management has teamed up with Milliman to develop and income strategy for retirees which will allow them to maintain higher weightings to growth assets whilst managing the risk of a GFC-style shock. Many superannuation funds see "lifecycle" ...

Folkestone acquires Maxim property boutique

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Folkestone has acquired boutique property fund manager Maxim Asset Management (Maxim), a specialist in listed real estate securities and high yield real estate debt. Maxim was co-founded by Winston Sammut in 2003. Sammut has more than 30 years' experience ...

Bloomberg acquires well-known UBS indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Independent global index provider Bloomberg Indexes has acquired a family of well-known Australian indices from UBS. Under the transaction, Bloomberg will acquire all UBS Australia bond indexes, including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index. The ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and securities regulators have opened up an examination into whether high frequency trading (HFT) firms are involved in insider trading. According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...