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ASIC slams funds' serious deficiencies over advice fee charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... poor oversight of advice fee deductions by superannuation trustees, with some allowing charges of up to $20,000 before raising concerns and some not conducting any checks of advice documents at all. ASIC is calling on trustees to do more to protect members ...

Discover the best performing asset class of 2023: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... international equities (hedged) posted a 21.7% return. The hedged returns were slightly lower due to the Federal Reserve raising rates higher than the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2023. Global small caps (unhedged) achieved a 15.62%, followed by Australian ...

Dexus completes $300m raising

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... gearing, the fund expects to invest as much as $2 billion, commencing with the funds from first close. "This successful fund raising illustrates the continued investment appetite for enhanced returns and investors support for the specialist Dexus team ...

OpenMarkets brings on corporate advisory firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
The fintech signed a strategic agreement that will see boutique advisory firm Rawson Lewis join its ranks. Rawson Lewis specialises in advising and structuring public capital markets transactions, including IPOs rights issues and placements, as well ...

Actuaries Institute proposes new performance test measure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... performance test," it said. The submission also recommended continuing to assess super fund fees in the test but suggested raising the representative member to $100,000 for non-platform products and $250,000 for platform products, up from the current ...

Commercial real estate optimism ticks up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... Australia are choosing to relocate core functions in response to growing physical and functional obsolescence. This is raising the bar on sustainability as tenants are seeking to secure highly accredited green buildings at the point of relocation wherever ...

Global Alternative Funds names managing director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... management from $12.5 million to $1.2 billion. She further points out that GAF is not a fund of funds manager nor a capital raising firm, but an investor across the alternative asset classes spectrum, of private credit, private equity, infrastructure ...

PE deals tumble again, down 63%: Bain & Company

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... raised $770 million for its buyout fund Fund V, which targets mid-market growth investments, after three months of fund raising. Pacific Equity Partners' (PEP) was a notable mention in the report for the progress of its Secure Assets Fund launched ...

Wholesale investor tests up for parliamentary review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... investment opportunities and are capable of understanding and shouldering the risks linked with sophisticated investments. Raising the financial criteria may impede this autonomy, curtailing many competent investors' abilities to partake in investments ...

Advised investors spurring SMSF rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... self-directed SMSF investors across generation X, millennials and the interwar generation all fell sharply year on year, raising the possibility some are now serviced by advisers or via other superannuation funds. Overall trading volumes among SMSFs ...