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UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
UBS Global Asset Management's Dynamic Alpha Strategy Fund (DAS) has received a $260 million institutional mandate from a unnamed government funds management organisation in Australia. This follows a $400 million institutional superannuation investment ...

Senate votes against disallowing FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
The Labor and Greens attempt to disallow government changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation failed after the Coalition was able to secure last-minute support from the Palmer United Party (PUP). The motion to disallow the government's ...

Labor forces tabling of FoFA regulations

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
The Labor Party tabled the regulations of amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments yesterday in the Senate. Labor Senator Sam Dastyari presented an order for the production of the Corporations Amendment (Streamlining Future of ...

Government delays SuperStream deadline

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
The government has pushed back the deadline at which super funds must comply with SuperStream to 1 July 2015. The SuperStream regime is due to commence on 1 July 2014, at which time employers with more than 20 employees will be able to start making ...

MySuper dashboards, ASIC warns trustees

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Following a regulatory review of MySuper product dashboards, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued extra guidance to superannuation trustees about how they need to be handled. The guidance update focuses on how the dashboards ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The government has announced that the start date for the product dashboard for 'choice' super funds and introduction of the portfolio holdings disclosure regime will be delayed 12 months to July 2015. Rollout of the MySuper product dashboard is unaffected ...

Compliance absorbs half of platforms' development budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Platforms are spending almost half of their development budget on regulatory compliance, the Investment Trends 2013 Platform Report found. The research covered 454 key characteristics of 13 platform providers and found that spending on developing new ...

Bloomberg acquires well-known UBS indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Independent global index provider Bloomberg Indexes has acquired a family of well-known Australian indices from UBS. Under the transaction, Bloomberg will acquire all UBS Australia bond indexes, including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index. The ...

Better ASIC-AFP relationship could lead to more prosecutions

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
There could be more legal prosecutions if the "inefficient" relationship between the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) was remedied, the Senate Economics Reference Committee has heard. ASIC ...

CMCRC launches regulator tool to test market "fairness"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has launched a tool for reviewing the impact of market design changes in capital markets, in a bid to defend against knee-jerk regulatory responses to crises. The Market Quality Dashboard enables ...