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New alternative beta fund answers hedge fund short-comings

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Amid poor fixed income returns, the need for alternatives in today's portfolios is being recognised by mainstream investors. But high fees, a lack of transparency, little capacity in top performing products and inconsistent returns from skill based ...

PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... and investment specialists, without that holistic view of planning. People were doing it, but it definitely wasn't mainstream." Shortly after Fog joined MLC, NAB purchased the company for $4.5 billion (roughly $6.7 billion adjusted to 2015 prices), which ...

Administrator buys Asia-Pacific hedge fund business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
The fund branch of an Australian boutique administrator has acquired the Asia-Pacific hedge fund administration business of Alter Domus. MainstreamBPO announced its US$1 million initial purchase price to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
Fund and superannuation administrator MainstreamBPO listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) earlier this month and the milestone promised some exciting announcements. Darren Snyder talked to SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan about ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... of risk in traditional portfolios came from equities. He said for managed funds, most people's money is invested in mainstream "benchmark aware" strategies or strategies that are also heavily weighted to the ASX top 20 or top 50. A quick glance at fund ...

ETFs just 5pct of all indexing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... that indexing is still overwhelmingly an institutional phenomenon," noted Rainmaker in its latest Roundup report. The mainstream strength of indexing is reinforced by how over almost all time periods it has grown 35-60% faster than the overall FUM market. ...

DomaCom added to managedaccounts.com.au

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... pleased to have been approved to support the delivery of real property by the managedaccounts.com.au solution. They are a mainstream managed account provider and will be the first to offer real property via DomaCom within a managed account solution," ...

Don't flood managed accounts with excess investment options: advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... choice and what features they should offer means, however, that the sector has become part of the wealth management mainstream. An offshoot of this is that arguments about the formal technical definitions of each type of managed account structure are ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... of Australia's economy being run in concert by the closed network of executive government, big business, banks and mainstream media, it is now clear we have a fifth estate - institutional investors. Governments and business leaders are learning that ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... enough. "The old adage is all about control, and 15-20 years ago DIY funds had features you just couldn't get in the mainstream space, like estate planning. But many funds have caught up now, so there's less of a need for SMSFs." So-called 'member direct ...