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Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
During the 2014 financial year 37% of new director appointments in the ASX100 were women, reportedly reflecting an overarching market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' ...

Lonsec rates several funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... Vectors Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The ETF business of Van Eck Global, Market Vectors said its Australian Equal Weight ETF (ASX: MVW), Gold Miners ETF (ASX: GDX), and Australian Banks ETF (ASX: MVB) each received the rating. Van Eck Australia managing ...

Administrator buys Asia-Pacific hedge fund business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... business of Alter Domus. MainstreamBPO announced its US$1 million initial purchase price to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and said Alter Domus' hedge fund admin operations will be integrated in to FundBPO's existing Hong Kong and Singapore ...

Link to list on the ASX today

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
The largest IPO of the year is set to launch later today, when Link Group lists on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Link raised $946.5 million from institutional investors and sold its share at $6.37, the highest price of the indicative price ...

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 ...

Australian IPOs beat US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
New research from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) has found Initial Public Offerings made in Australia could raise more capital than they could in the US, despite the Australian market's smaller size and depth. MGSM dean, Professor ...

Prime Value launches SIV fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... Opportunities Fund follows recent changes to the SIV regulations, which now require investors to allocate a minimum of $1.5 million to ASX-listed emerging company funds, and a minimum $500,000 in venture capital funds. The fund will follow a similar ...

NAB to offer mFund trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) is the first of the big four banks to offer ASX's mFund Settlement Service. Clients of NAB Asset Management, nabtrade and NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) will be able to trade mFunds at the end of the year. The announcement came ...

XTBs added to Praemium, HUB24 super platforms

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... superannuation platforms. XTBs provide retail investors access to units of individual corporate bonds issued by the top 50 ASX-listed companies. As of today, they are available on 19 investment platforms and 90 Australian financial services licensee ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... 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 shows during August and September shows substantial purchases included a material holding ...