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Administrator grows FUM by 68pct

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Administrator MainstreamBPO recorded an after tax profit of $1 million last financial year, seeing significant growth in its funds administration business. MainstreamBPO grew its funds under administration to $88 billion or by 68% in the 12 months to ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... thereby softening the dramatic impact of frequently occurring 'crises' that tend to be spruiked by the financial and mainstream media. CFM's Institutional Systematic Diversified Trust, which is marketed and distributed in Australia by Winston Capital ...

Fund administrator purchases New York business

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
An Australian fund administrator is delivering on its recent US expansion by acquiring New York-based hedge fund administrator Fundadministration. Following the opening of its New York office in July, ASX-listed MainstreamBPO sees its most recent purchase ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... to take aspects of the technology and apply it to part of the problem. There's absolutely no scenario we can see in mainstream capital markets in the near term where you can apply blockchain to solve post trade processing problems."

Vast majority of advisers turning to smart beta: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... said they were satisfied with it. "The findings of the survey show that smart beta is moving from the periphery to a mainstream investment option," VanEck Australia managing director Arian Neiron said. "It is likely that smart beta strategies will become ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... strategies. "We are delighted to work with MSCI, whose products we hope will help take low carbon investing further into the mainstream," AP4 chief executive Mats Andersson said. "We are confident that this approach can offer an alternative source of ...

AREITs less defensive as returns surge: Zenith

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... showed that Australian REITs - and global REITs, which delivered 4.2% on average - performed favourably against other mainstream asset classes over the year, which was affected by strong market volatility. REITs weren't unaffected by market conditions ...

MainstreamBPO heads to NY

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
Fund and superannuation administrator MainstreamBPO has opened an office in New York in the hopes of expanding its hedge fund administration business. The New York office will be the first outside the Asia Pacific region for the group and will add to ...

Responsible assets close to half of total Australia AUM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... 10 years (but slightly underperformed in the short-term); and core RI multi-sector growth funds outperformed their mainstream equivalents over all time periods. The largest asset managers of core responsible investments, by AUM, are AMP Capital, Investa ...

AXA IM global equity SmartBeta fund gets RIAA approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... globally by AXA IM grew substantially in 2015 to reach $655 billion. "We expect this trend to continue as RI becomes more mainstream and the asset management industry further embraces ESG integration and impact-based outcomes," said Hurt. RIAA, the industry ...