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QIC extends partnership with Northern Trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Australian institutional fund manager QIC recently appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody, fund accounting, taxation and associated services for its range of Australian fund products. The appointment follows Northern Trust's commitment to ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
To paraphrase Karen (Carpenter), "there's a kind of hush all over the world overnight". The violent upheaval in the bond and equity markets you, I and Irene witnessed over the past few days appeared to have eased. Perhaps, this is because the selling ...

Terminally ill granted early access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
People suffering a terminal illness will be granted early access to their superannuation savings if they have less than two years to live. The government will amend the provision for early access to superannuation in such cases, following consultation ...

ASIC takes SMSF business to court

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
ASIC has launched legal action against a company which is advertising 'free SMSF setup' online. The regulator wants financial penalties and orders to stop Superannuation Warehouse Australia (SWA) from making the claim on two of its websites: superannuationwarehouse.com.au ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Magellan Asset Management has increased the cash weighting in its Global Equity Strategy from 10% to 15% in a bid to hedge the portfolio from an impending rise in US interest rates. Douglass argued that there is a "Great Disagreement" as to where the ...

SMA usage climbs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
One in five (20%) financial advisers are now using separately managed accounts for investors, according to research by JBWere and Investment Trends. This is the highest level of usage recorded, indicating both the growing client preference for the transparency ...

AMIST Super reappoints NAS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
National Australia Bank Asset Servicing (NAS) has been reappointed as custodian for AMIST Super for a further five years. NAS has been AMIST Super's custodian since 2003. NAS general manager Matthew Brown said: "We look forward to continuing to grow ...

Northern Trust appoints former BlackRock vice president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... is former BlackRock vice president Shane Teunissen who will be senior institutional sales manager. Appointed as sales associate is Ann-Marie Garry, who joined Northern Trust after its acquisition of Bank of Ireland Securities Services in 2011. Most recently ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... The rest said market share will stay roughly the same and only a tiny minority think it will fall. Angelos Gousios, associate director with Cerulli in London, and one of the main authors of the report - 'European Distribution Dynamics 2015: Preparing ...

We don't need financial advice: Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... their banks on the basis of low account fees and free ATM withdrawals. Co-author, fellow Gen Y representative and KPMG associate director, Kristina Craig, said some interesting and unexpected findings were uncovered. "Seventy per cent said they don't ...