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PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... technical services for both Vanguard and JB Were Investment Management looking after superannuation and managed investment schemes. Houlihan explains the technical side meant he was often responsible for running personal development days for financial ...

Aberdeen beefs up local distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... billion of assets for a range of global and domestic clients including listed investment companies, managed investment schemes and segregated mandates.

ASIC seeks to wind up $18m manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... Avestra Asset Management - which ASIC's statement said is a "responsible entity or trustee of a number of managed investment schemes" - has reportedly "contravened its duties in relation to a number of the schemes." Areas of misconduct include failing ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... there that the insurer doesn't understand, like you've got a lot of people in unregistered funds or managed investment schemes, it's going to add to the premium." However, Euvrard (whose business assists advisers in setting up AFSLs) added that in many ...

Qualitas grows team with senior appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... general counsel and company secretary, as well as head of the compliance committee for the manager's managed investment schemes. Chandni Haribhai was most recently a portfolio manager for ANZ's property sector clients in its institutional property group ...

FSI submissions close

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... have a majority of independent directors and aligning penalties for director misconduct with those of managed investment schemes. The government is also looking to enshrine in legislation a definition of the purpose of super; as well as change the way ...

Treasury starts consultation for higher advice standards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... personal advice on Tier 1 financial products, including shares, superannuation, life insurance and managed investment schemes, are set out in the diagram overleaf. Treasury confirmed that the closing date for submissions is May 7, but added that consultation ...

FEATURE: Understanding mFund

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... Office (ATO), barely 5% of the $543 billion that is invested through self-managed super funds sits in managed investment schemes. Furthermore, SMSF investors are vastly under-invested in international securities. The latest available ATO data shows that ...

Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... offer superannuation funds, including an independent chair; align the director penalty regime with managed investment schemes; and strengthen the conflict of interest requirements. Strengthen product issuer and distributor accountability: Introduce a ...

ASIC begins legal action against LM Investment Management

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Federal Court in Brisbane on 25 November 2014. LMIM was the responsible entity for seven registered managed investment schemes and the trustee for MPF, an unregistered managed investment scheme with about 4,500 investors. More than $400 million was invested ...