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Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... gathering pace in the global financial services sector, according to the CFA Institute's Asia Pacific managing director Paul Smith. The losses investors experienced during the GFC have prompted the industry to review its processes and challenge long-held ...

Higher inflation triggered by central bank decisions

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The US Federal Reserve's decision to put tapering on hold has heightened the risk of developed world economies entering a period of higher inflation, according to Ardea Investment Management principal Tamar Hamlyn. The fixed-income specialist said that ...

Demand for industrial property exceeds expectations

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Investors' appetite for industrial property, especially from the self-managed super segment, is ahead of expectations, inflows into one property fund manager's specialist product indicate. Charter Hall has announced that it has closed its Direct Industrial ...

REST appoints new director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
REST Industry Super has appointed John Edstein to its board as an employer nominated director. Edstein was a partner for over 20 years at top tier national law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques (subsequently King & Wood Mallesons) where he practised extensively ...

La Trobe calls to end home loan risk fees

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
Risk fees charged by some non-bank lenders on home loans offer no benefits to consumers and should be stopped, according to La Trobe Financial chief executive Greg O'Neill. Risk fees, or equalisation fees as they are sometimes known, appeared as an ...

Instreet launches income paying gold product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013

ASIC warns consumers about NRAS property ads

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned consumers about advertising that promotes the use of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to invest in residential properties through the National Rental Affordability Scheme ...

TAL life chief actuary to head global association

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
TAL Life chief actuary and former Actuaries Institute president Fred Rowley will take up office as president-elect of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) from 1 January 2014 and is expected to become president in 2015. The International Actuarial ...

Industry Funds Management name change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Global fund manager Industry Funds Management (IFM) has changed its name to IFM Investors. The organisation was founded over 20 years ago and is owned by 30 major superannuation funds. It invests its $48 billion funds under management on behalf of five ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...