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Almost everyone got a bonus this year, report reveals

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... conditions. More than half of financial services professionals (53%) received a bonus of 1-20% of their annual salary, whilst a third of respondents received between 20% and 45%. Compared to their peers, 34% of our respondents felt their bonus was the ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... portfolio disclosure at all. The next worst nation is France where nearly 60% provide some data. In saying that, roughly a third of Australian funds produce the data monthly, which is the gold standard globally. That's ahead of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South ...

GSFM appoints institutional manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM) has appointed a new senior manager - institutional business. Vivienne Lee will be based in Sydney and report to GSFM chief executive Andrew McKinnon and head of distribution Damien McIntyre. Her role will focus on ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Official data on Monday showed Chinese imports slumped 17.6 per cent in May, a seventh straight fall. Exports dropped for the third successive month, slipping 2.5 per cent. The figures are the latest to suggest the Asian economic giant is struggling ...

Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... If you can do something cheaper in-house or elsewhere equal, that makes sense. The second, beyond fees, is capacity. The third reason is control," Sicilia said. He said it wasn't about replacing external fund managers, and should a company not have the ...

TAL Risk Academy receiving "record" applications

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
TAL's ongoing education initiative, the Risk Academy, is receiving high volumes of adviser applications. The Risk Academy offers three courses, accredited by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA): Essential, Advice and Masters. Collectively, they ...

Henderson scores $2.6bn in mandates from Perennial buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... billion and at least $2.6 billion are in mandates from institutional investors, Rainmaker Information data from 2015 shows. A third investment boutique, Perennial Value, will remain under IOOF as it was never part of the transaction, IOOF and Henderson ...

Henderson acquires IOOF's Perennial

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... acquired fund manager Perennial Fixed interest Partners and Perennial Growth from IOOF and has increased its stake in a third investment firm. UK-based Henderson has bought all the shares of Perennial Fixed interest Partners and Perennial Growth management ...

SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... with $2.6 trillion in funds under management. Of this, $1.8 trillion was invested with resident managers while around one third, or $864.2 billion, was invested directly in offshore markets or with offshore managers.

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... slowest since the March quarter of 2013 - and takes year-on-year growth in the local economy to 1.7% -- the least since the third quarter of 2009 (1.1%). Still, nobody expects the RBA to cut interest rates when it meets tomorrow - not after last month's ...