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SMSFs could own Kidman Station

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
A crowd-funded initiative is proposing that self-managed super funds (SMSFs) raise about $360 million to acquire Kidman Station. The initiative, started by retail investment platform DomaCom and financial adviser Stephen Burgin, was set up following ...

Blue Sky to raise $200m for new VC fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
Blue Sky Venture Capital is launching a new $200 million venture capital (VC) fund targeted at institutional investors to invest in later-stage deals in Australia and overseas. VC fundraising in Australia increased to $368 million last financial year ...

Latest Power50 list unveiled

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
This year's most influential people in social media within the Australian financial services industry have been unveiled in the latest FS Power50. Now in its third year, the annual list recognises the leading lights driving the conversation mainly on ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
PIMCO has appointed five world leaders to a newly-created Global Advisory Board that will contribute to the firm on global economic, political and strategic developments. The board will be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The ...

Two IPAC advisers join independent firm

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Independent advice firm Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has recruited two senior advisers from IPAC to its AFSL in Victoria. Bev Manallack and Heather Boughton join the company on 7 December from IPAC and will operate out of Fitzpatricks' Collins Street ...

Life insurance claims revamped at industry fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
An industry superannuation fund and its insurer have launched an online life insurance claim tool that enables quicker payments and helps identify return to work and rehabilitation services for members. Sunsuper and AIA Australia announced their new ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has made four more XTBs (exchange traded bond units) available on the ASX. The release is the company's third tranche in as many weeks and takes the stable of XTBs to 33 in total. The latest release expands ...

Robo-advice is WALL-E, not Terminator

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Financial planners need to see robo-advice as a friendly, helpful tool, such as Pixar's WALL-E, rather than as the destructive machine pictured in Terminator. The rise of technological tools that automate some parts of financial advice was one of the ...

Spreading the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015

Mercer enters new engagement era

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Mercer believes superannuation administration as a record-keeping service is no longer a sustainable business plan and has reshaped its administrative services to "an era of engagement". Launching the Super Genome Project, Mercer has rolled out of a ...