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Aussie asset manager dives into Spanish water market

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... to close in August. The transaction represents IFM Investors' first Continental Europe water company investment and its third globally. IFM Investors has 15 years' experience in the sector, having invested in Wyuna Water in Australia and Anglian Water ...

SMEs shun banks, turn to fintechs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Small-to-medium enterprises are increasingly shunning banks and turning to fintechs and alternative sources to fuel growth and operational needs, an SME growth sentiment index shows. The proportion of SMEs planning to use banks dropped from 38% to 24% ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) shows 55% of non-property investors would support changes to negative gearing, as would one-third of property investors, even if it meant house prices would drop. Such an event may even be welcomed, given four out of five ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... strength. The year-on-year growth rate in GDP accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the December 2017 quarter from 1.9% in the third quarter, 1.6% in the second and 1.3% in the first quarter. The country's unemployment rate has dropped to three months short ...

Financial advice under the Royal Commission spotlight next month

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... Ombudsman Service recently suggested in a submission to the Royal Commission that financial advisers account for more than a third of all serious misconduct issues since early 2012. These investigations involved instances of fraudulent or grossly negligent ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
The Labor Government is proposing to eliminate cash refunds received from excess dividend imputation credits - a "generous" tax loophole that's mostly benefiting self-managed super funds. Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said this "unfair revenue leakage" ...

Australia ticks boxes for ultra-high-net-worth individuals

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... is still a destination of choice for ultra-wealthy investors, according to Knight Frank's wealth report. Australia is the third most-preferred global destination for the world's ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) to emigrate, behind the UK and ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... executives are usually employed by the wealth management company that sponsor the fund rather than the fund itself. One-third of the funds in the study were found to have a W-index score of 30% or more. Rainmaker said that while this ratio is low it ...

AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... AMP from Bank of Queensland, where she is currently general manager BOQ Broker. She was previously NSW/ACT state manager, third party banking at CBA and chief operating officer of NZF Group in New Zealand. Commenting on the appointment, AMP Bank group ...

MLC, ANU boost alternatives strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... respondents said it is currently harder to find attractive investment opportunities compared to a year ago, while more than a third (37%) will commit more capital to private equity funds this year. In a similar vein, the majority (78%) of institutional ...