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Adviser Ratings revamps website in prep for FAR launch

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Consumer-based adviser "review" service Adviser Ratings has updated its website to accommodate ASIC's first adviser register (FAR), launching at the end of March. The website, which currently has a database of 18,000 advisers, now provides users with ...

VicSuper awards $100 million mandate to AB

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
AllianceBernstein has been awarded a $100 million mandate from VicSuper for its Emerging Consumer strategy. "The Emerging Consumer strategy will diversify our emerging-market equities exposure. We were impressed by the product's uniqueness," said VicSuper ...

Connect Brokers sets up Asian initiative

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Connect Financial Service Brokers has set up a specialist consultancy firm dedicated to connecting small and medium advice business owners with partnership opportunities in the Asia Pacific Region. The new business, Connect ASEAN, is based in Melbourne ...

APAC asset managers to invest heavily in data

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
State Street research suggests that asset managers in the Asia-Pacific region will significantly increase their investment in data management and analytics over the next three years. Based on a survey conducted by Longitude Research, which polled 400 ...

Turnbull on super and housing debate: "a thoroughly bad idea"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
Communications Minister and Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull slammed Treasurer Joe Hockey's suggestion that young Australians could be given early access to their superannuation to help them buy their first house. "My own view is that would be a thoroughly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... weaker at $35.25 and National Bank had shed 15 cents to $37.61. Telstra was flat at $6.20. Shares in Gold Coast theme park owner Ardent Leisure Group have dropped more than 17 per cent, or 42 cents to $2.01. The group has issued a statement acknowledging ...

AustralianSuper adds London site to property portfolio

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
AustralianSuper has bought a 25% stake in a large mixed-use property investment in London's King's Cross. The purchase is the $84 billion industry super fund's first direct London investment and only its second in the UK. AustralianSuper will join the ...

Asian institutions not using asset consultants

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
Asian institutional investors aren't making as much use of asset consultants as their US and European peers, according to research by Cerulli Associates. Cerulli's Asian Business Strategies: Making the Breakthrough report explains that where asset consultants ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The period between separation and divorce is fraught with estate planning dangers, CommInsure national technical manager Alex Koodrin explained at a recent Financial Standard Technical Services Forum in Sydney. Koodrin said that the average time period ...

AustralianSuper inks $1.1bn US property deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
AustralianSuper undertaken its biggest single direct property transaction and has invested almost $1.1 billion in a property in the United States. The super fund has acquired a 25% stake in Honolulu's Ala Moana Center from US S&P 500 company General ...