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IFM expands direct investments team

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has expanded its direct investments group with the appointment of Ashley Barker as investment director. Barker will focus on identifying and executing investment opportunities for IFM's new direct investments business. ...

SPAA creates head of education role

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has appointed a head of education services to address the regulator's upcoming registration requirements. Liz Ward has been promoted to the role after joining SPAA last year as an education manager. ...

SFG pursues mergers on WHK suspension

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Financial advice firm SFG Australia (SFGA) is actively pursuing mergers with other accountancy firms, after making the decision to withdraw its proposal with WHK (WHK) Group yesterday. SFGA managing director Tony Fenning told Financial Standard that ...

UBS creates APAC real estate role

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Former Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) managing director Trevor Cooke is set to join UBS Global Asset Management (UBS) in a newly created role. Cooke will officially join UBS on May 27, 2013 as head of global real estate for Asia Pacific. According ...

ASIC MDA review requires further clarity: IMAP

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
The Institute of Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) have maintained that the regulator's insistence on an annual review for managed discretionary account operators (MDAs) is excessive, and will push for a two-year requirement. In its submission to ...

Chi-X matches ASX trade reporting cap

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
The Chi-X has matched the ASX and capped its fees for its trade reporting service to a maximum of $1000 per month per participant. A Chi-X announcement said that the cap on its reporting fees was effective retrospectively from 1st April 2013 and would ...

Rainmaker Group appoints Professional Standards Officer

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
Financial advice expert Trevor Harris joins the Technical Services team of Rainmaker Group this month in the newly-created role of Professional Standards Officer. In his new role, Harris will be responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the ...

Countplus makes expansion plans

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
Countplus has foreshadowed the listing of a new accounting-only vehicle on the ASX. According to an ASX statement Countplus had "previously advised that it would generally only directly purchase stand-alone accounting firms on a part-ownership basis". ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
Institutional investors expect the highest returns from equities this year, as government bonds are increasingly called into question. An Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 730 senior institutional investors in Australia and around the world ...

$10bn CEFC fund gets govt mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has begun to build its investment pipeline after the government's issue and release of its $10 billion investment mandate this week. The funds will become available after 1 July 2013, and the CEFC is progressing ...