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Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... domination of Uncle Sam's greens. Two days before, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne revealed that the UK is in "active" negotiations with China to set up a clearing bank in London and that he expects this to be completed in "fairly short order". ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Australia Ratings. "We stick to innovative products to meet our clients' investment objectives," he said. The group is now in active discussions with a number of asset consultants regarding its product offering. Australia Ratings is the only credit rating ...

SMSF industry welcomes more flexible penalties

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... residency rules. "The loss of compliance status in these circumstances is significant particularly when you consider the active member test is a difficult test to understand and apply and many breaches are inadvertent," he said. Burgess said that despite ...

Challenger launches new smart beta boutique

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... beta strategy. It will be run by former BT Investment Management head of macro strategies Joe Bracken. "Tempo operates an active investment strategy that aims to outperform global indices over time. The team's philosophy is based on the premise that ...

Capital Group appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... and the move to take the RE role in-house are further steps in this journey." Capital Group is one of the world's largest active fund managers with more than US$1.2 trillion in assets under management.

PROFILE: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... reports. By his own admission, politics was not always on the cards for Senator Arthur Sinodinos. He was not particularly active in student politics while at university, and spent a portion of his career in the corporate world - moving effortlessly between ...

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... candidate from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management Zhe Chen said. "Related to this, the research suggests that active fund managers have some skill in the inter-day timing of their trades and taking away their timing discretion may be costly." ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms must be debated as legislation in Parliament, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair and former NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins. The government is currently ...

EQT charitable trust distribute over $14.5 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
Equity Trustees' (EQT) 206 charitable trusts distributed more than $14.5 million in 2013, following the directions and wishes of the trusts' founders. The charitable trusts managed by Equity Trustees total more than $490 million in value and are comprised ...

ETF assets to surpass hedge funds in 12-18 months

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Australia, the ETF market still has a lot of room for growth. Given ETFs are often marketed as lower cost investment options to active management, it will be interesting to see whether initiatives like the MySuper low cost option start looking to ETF's ...