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Super funds on notice over disclosure deadline

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
From 30 September financial advisers and consumers can expect to see significant changes in the way superannuation and managed investment funds disclose fees and charges. Corporate regulator ASIC said the changes will help bring industry-wide consistency ...

Former investment bankers behind new platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Two former senior JPMorgan and UBS investment bankers have joined forces to launch an online investment platform. Targeting investors seeking exposure to a wide range of asset classes in Australia, Rob Nankivell and Travis Miller said iPartners aims ...

SQM rolls out low-cost adviser platform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... service is significantly more cost effective and includes residential property research, equities data, as well as investment fund qualitative ratings, enabling advisers to give a more detailed Statement of Advice," SQM managing director Louis Christopher ...

Investment purpose critical to advice: Nikko AM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... after altering its commitment to SRI - a move whereby the university reinvested a portion of its $320 million investment fund in mining companies. Under the new policy, the universities external fund manager is only required to exclude companies that ...

Australian Ethical awarded industry fund mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
Australian Ethical will manage an industry superannuation fund's responsible investment option, totaling $128 million. The ethical investment and superannuation provider was appointed by Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund to manage ...

IOOF appoints new asset consultant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
IOOF Investments has announced its new asset consultant to replace Russell Investments. Mercer Australia is the new asset consultant, following Russell's contract with IOOF ending on 30 June. Russell notified IOOF at the end of 2016 of its intention ...

SuperConcepts to close Victorian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... be increasing its operations in South Australia after receiving a $1.6 million grant from the state's Economic Investment Fund. The project is expected to create 52 new jobs and produce almost $80 million for the region; however it has also resulted ...

SuperConcepts expands in Adelaide

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... Australian Government. The AMP-owned business will receive $1.6 million in funding via the state government's Economic Investment Fund to increase its South Australian footprint and contribute to the growth of financial services in the region. The project ...

Pengana partners with UK ESG manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
Pengana Capital Group, the company formed via the merger of Pengana and Hunter Hall, entered an agreement with a UK investment manager representing $260 million in assets under management. WHEB Asset Management is a specialist manager focusing on sustainable ...

DomaCom chasing Federal Court exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... the SIS (Superannuation Industry Supervision) Act. If successful, SMSF investors with the ASX-listed fractional investment fund manager would be able to invest in property sub-funds in which the tenant of the underlying property is in some way a related ...