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Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... during the past year has been a reweighting of the portfolio into international equities and alternatives away from debt securities and cash. According to the Future Fund's latest portfolio report its international equity exposure jumped almost one and ...

Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... services to Solaris. The new business already boasts an agriculture offering, a global property fund (RRE Global Property Securities) and a global equities fund, and now the QIC team will provide a new Australian small caps capability to be known as ...

Australia signs FATCA agreement with US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... owners to meet regulations in other regions. This development helps ease some of that pressure," head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Australia and New Zealand Peter Baker said. "As Treasurer Hockey said; this move reduces the burden on Australian ...

BNP Paribas wins $1bn Certitude contract off NAB

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... suite BNP Paribas is very well positioned to support us and our growing client base". Peter Baker, head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Australia and New Zealand, said: "We are delighted that Certitude chose us. Our commitment to Certitude, and all ...

ASIC cancels two more AFSL licences

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of a Parramatta insurance broker and of Banksia Mortgages. The Parramatta-based WD Gelle Insurance & Finance Brokers' licence ...

AMP Capital appoints London-based institutional director

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... Campbell will also focus on fundraising for AMP Capital's UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) platform and for its unlisted infrastructure business. She will work with clients such as pension funds, insurers, private ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... dollar and the creation of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and the current form of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). And now it seems, after the structural changes brought about by the global financial ...

Super fund custody 'fee holidays' revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... for administration services, then there are ancillary services such as cash management, foreign exchange services and securities lending. These can all be put into the revenue mix to offset each other over the life of the contract. At the end of the ...

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STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... the latest edition of Financial Standard, we consider how the ongoing inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission might prove to be a wake-up call for the regulator. We also look at the Financial System Inquiry ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
The Economics Committee conducting the inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will present the Senate with "a widespread report that will include the industries' black holes and dark corners." The ...