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ASIC releases hedge funds guidance

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... Consultation (CP 174) outlines the risks and features of hedge funds that need to be highlighted in a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) for these products to allow investors to make informed investment decisions. "Our proposed disclosure guidance has ...

Confusion over APRA risk disclosure guidance

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
The regulator-preferred expression of risk in product disclosure statements seems to elicit more consumer mistakes than other presentation methods, according to research from the University of Technology Sydney. Speaking at an Investment Management ...

MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
In accordance with the Government's June 22 deadline, MLC has cut the PDS for two of its flagship products to the required eight-page short-form after already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The ...

AMP enhances super products

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
AMP has changed its contemporary super products to the new short form Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) regime ahead of the government's deadline next year. It follows Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten's announcement earlier this year that PDS ...

Advance embarks on multi-blend approach

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Advance Asset Management has launched two new funds and reshaped another to maximise its multi-blend approach in alternatives, Asian shares and cash, while getting ahead of competitors by conforming to new regulations. Launched yesterday to direct investors ...

SMSFs could use email for SuperStream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... it through a website. Smith said the adviser wouldn't have to worry about a statement of advice or product disclosure statement, they could just put up a few websites and show them to the client. The question drew a lot of support from attendees concerned ...

Investment manager goes mobile

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... to check daily unit prices, subscribe and watch videos on monthly performance reports and order a product disclosure statement. "It was important to us that core customers can get in and out with what they came looking for without being lost in endless ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... The start date for disclosing risk on a standardised basis coincides with the government's shorter product disclosure statement regime.

JB Global submits to independent review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... JBG Structured Investments, part of JB Global, was also investigated over marketing material and a product disclosure statement, with the firm taking swift action to rectify issues raised by ASIC. Justin Beeton, managing director of JB Global Investment ...

Planners embrace 8IP Asia Pac Partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... demand from planning dealer groups, practices and high net worth individuals. To be available under a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), the boutique investment fund manager said investors had expressed a keen interest in the fund, but wanted a simpler ...