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Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... Financial Services Council annual conference, to be held on 1-3 August at the Gold Coast in Queensland. Despite industry plans to self regulate the full disclosure of a fund's investment holdings; Treasury has taken a "heavy handed" approach in its tranche ...

LUCRF expands in-house investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... largest super fund AustralianSuper recently announced that it had established an investment committee to guide it towards plans to double exposure to investments in Asia. Most of the AustralianSuper committee will be based in Asia, and serviced by the ...

Northern Trust continues expansion

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Northern Trust has reaffirmed Australian expansion plans, with a new hires in its Melbourne office. Christopher Thomson has joined as a business development manager, in line with plans for 54% staff growth in 2012. Northern Trust said that Thomson's ...

AusSuper to double Asian exposure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
AustralianSuper plans to more than double its exposure to Asia over the next four years, and has established an investment committee to lead the charge. Most of the committee will be based in Asia, and serviced by the investment services team in Australia. ...

Mariner lodges TO panel complaint

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... Corporation has gone to the Takeovers Panel to try and stop the sale of Austock's property business. Austock last week announced plans for an $11 million sale of Austock Property Funds Management and its related entities to Folkestone Limited, despite ...

Aberdeen fixed income manager resigns

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... Aberdeen's management in the coming days to better understand the full impact of this announcement and get clarity on the firm's plans for managing this change and appointing a replacement. Blumberg said, "Until we receive that clarity, we have taken ...

Perpetual sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... mortgage processing business to FAF International Property Services Australia, an affiliate of First Mortgage Services. Plans to sell Perpetual Lenders Mortgage Services (PLMS) were announced as part of downsizing plans announced 25 June 2012. "The sale ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... tax rate to 75% on incomes above a,-1 million and introducing a one-off "wealth tax", ending the payroll tax holiday and plans to impose an extra tax on company dividends. And guess what? The pro-austerity PM - the UK's David Cameron - who told the world ...

Aust needs better PPP infra structures: Greiner

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... Lend Lease's Barangaroo project announced this week. While Canada is shifting towards defined contribution (accumulation) plans, in 2008 the proportion of Canadians with defined benefit arrangement was as high as 77%, according to Statistics Canada. ...

BlackRock to buy private equity business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... according to the firm. In a separate statement Swiss Re said it would continue to hold the underlying investments in SRPEP and plans further private equity investments, mainly through this platform. A spokesperson said that 50 staff based in Zurich ...