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Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... from institutional improvement over the next few decades, and, as such, action would greatly improve investor confidence. The top five countries in this group are Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and India. Australia's demographic index ranking is ...

NAS searching for new EGM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... follows the resignation of NAS executive general manager Matt Brown prior to Christmas after spending about nine months in the top position. NAB confirmed it has commenced a search for a new executive general manager for its Asset Servicing business ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) yesterday. The measure highlighted that six financial services companies were among the top 10 paying large taxes as a percentage of their income in 2014. Topping the list was Citibank who paid more than $195 million ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... and emerging companies was at odds with most applicants appetite for risk. "Most SIV investors put capital preservation as top priority. They do not want to invest in asset classes which are high risk yet offer lower returns than they can achieve in ...

China emerging as fintech leader

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... sector, according to KPMG research. In partnership with H2 Ventures, KPMG released the Fintech 100 report, which lists the top 50 established "leaders" in the sector along with 50 emerging companies. Chinese online property insurance service ZhongAn ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Australia is still someway off rebalancing its economy following the end of the mining boom and investors must consider the real possibility of recession, warns PIMCO. While the chair of the fund manager's Asia-Pacific portfolio committee, Adam Bowe ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The top earning international shares exchange traded product (ETP) didn't even exist 12 months ago. Its category didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. ...

Aussies don't want gift of super this Christmas

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
Over the Christmas break about 30% of Australians would rather pay off debt than top up their superannuation balances according to the latest MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey. Interviewing more than 2000 people in its quarterly survey, MLC found investor's ...

ISA launches super tax plan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... reinforcing several other tax initiatives as part of its second submission to the federal government's latest Tax Review. On top of the super seed, ISA is proposing a 25% rebate for all income earners who contribute super and limiting total contributions ...