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Perpetual reveals details of first LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Perpetual Investments has unveiled the details of its first listed investment company, Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited. Trading under the ASX code PIC, the company is designed to deliver regular income and long-term capital growth through ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmark across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years, the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. The worst offending sector ...

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... Road's newly branded funds management business Smarter Money Investments has received two ratings for its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund. Australia Ratings, a new credit rating agency founded by former Standard & Poor's Managing director Chris Dalton ...

First State Super cuts investment fees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... number of investment strategies used. In a communication to members, the fund said that this part of a wider rejig of its active asset allocation process. "The new process uses various economic and market signals to determine market valuations. Using ...

YBR Funds Management rebrands, launches new fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... funds has been wholesale." Regarding the new fund, Harvey said: "An existing institutional investor in the Smarter Money Active Cash Fund recently asked the SMI team whether we could create a new option that focussed more on Australian floating-rate ...

Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... the disallowance could still be tabled if Cormann does not give Williams a satisfactory response. Williams has been an active voice in expressing concern over financial advice legislation. In July 2013, he also tabled the request to start a Senate inquiry ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Abbott government has announced that it will go ahead with amendments to the tax rules around fund mergers to ensure members caught up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor ...

van Eyk up for sale

ALICE URIBE, MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Van Eyk administrator Trent Hancock of Moore Stephens Sydney Corporate Recovery Group is seeking expressions of interest for the purchase of the business and its associated assets. In a statement administrator Trent Hancock said: "The core business ...

Young Australians clueless about life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... dollars a week for death insurance they do not want or need. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos urged people to take an active interest in their insurance. "Insurance provided through super plays an important role in helping to protect people from the ...