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Maple-Brown Abbott global infra fund added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... Asset Management in a partnership model which also sees the third party marketer manage relationships with the research houses and platforms. The firm's head of distribution, Alex Donald said, "The Maple-Brown Abbott GLI Fund has been hugely successful ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... After travelling a bit, Sowerby eventually set about becoming a commodities trader and fired off around 100 CVs to trading houses all over the world. By his own admission he got very lucky. One day he was contacted by a fifth-generation cotton farming ...

Managed Accounts challenge to retail wealth groups

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... and the fully flexible Universal Managed Account structure. These models are managed by more than 70 different investment houses including regular investment managers, researchers, brokers, managed account platform promoters and also advice groups. While ...

ANZ senior manager leaves to set up consultancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... look to coach fund managers with regard to investment capability, as well as assessing and managing relations with rating houses and asset consultants. The consultancy will be fully independent: "There is a need for independent advice and I think there ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... pen to them - it doesn't get disintermediated or polished up somewhere else. Frankly I think with a lot of institutional houses, their communications aren't genuine and the advisers know it; they're smart." With its recently launched and highly innovative ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... remains the same," he says. "We research funds and managers, but we don't have 14 analysts like some of the stockbroking houses determining whether you buy BHP or sell NAB. We are not stock-pickers in any asset class. "Every client who has a managed ...

Perpetual's acquisition of The Trust Company pays off

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... consultants JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson, Cambridge, Russell and Mercer. The fund has received ratings from the major research houses and managers are working on including it in the major dealer group platforms, approved product platforms and model ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... there is "strong growth towards model portfolio ETFs. "Investors are using models from renowned fund managers or research houses to build their own diversified portfolios," he said. "Most of the times, they don't take it to the letter; they take the ...

Super funds advised to be smart with technology

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... the way they actually want it. He said it was a big shift whereby consumers, if they choose, don't have to leave their houses and can customise everything down to breakfast cereal.

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... units approved" rose by 2.8% in March to stand 23.6% higher over its level in the same month last year. "Private sector houses" increased by 1.1% over the month and 1.6% for the year. "Private sector dwellings excluding houses" surged by 5.3% on the ...