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US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... managers to market their products directly to investors. The directive has a more immediate impact on US rather than European houses, as European hedge funds will be able to apply for a "passport" that allows them to market their products to European ...

Local funds ignore US $10.6tr pension market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... sector - more even than mining -- the industry accounts for just 0.5% of total exports. Himbury explained that for many fund houses searching for opportunities overseas is likely to be preferable to going toe-to-toe in an increasingly crowded domestic ...

Coalition will delay SG rise, abolish LICS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... rescinded. This obviously assumes an expected Coalition victory in September delivers the parliamentary numbers in both houses sufficient to achieve this policy objective. Demonstrating his commitment to this measure, Abbott said, "this will be the first ...

Certitude to distribute Columbia Credit fund in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... prominent family office, will become the first product Certitude brings to the market. It will be made available to research houses, platforms, dealer groups, financial advisers, family offices and multi-managers. "We continue to see an increase in interest ...

APRA warns licensees warning about 3 day rollovers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... member tax file numbers (TFNs). The requirements are part of the SuperStream reforms that have already passed through both houses of Parliament. The most strategically significant is the new rollover requirement that comes into force on 1 July 2013. ...

Equipsuper appoints former Goldman Sachs CIO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... director Andrew Cooke as an independent member of its investment committee. Cooke has held senior roles with investment houses such as Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and JP Morgan. Equipsuper chair Andrew Fairley said that Cooke will bring a deep investment ...

Islamic finance forum to discuss Shariah growth opps

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... Emirates' governments continue to issue investment grade Shariah bonds. To benefit from the growing theme, local investment houses and financial planning firms are designing products and developing ways of attracting clients who prefer to invest in Shariah ...

BGL extends contract note service to managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... first time the service has been available for managed funds and BGL hopes to extend the service for 31 other large fund houses in the near future. "The addition of managed funds to the BGL Contract Note Service will make it much easier for our clients ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... jumped last year by the most in 65 years," because they now have positive equity. "The amount by which the value of the houses exceeds their underlying mortgages rose to $8.2 trillion last year, a gain of 25 percent, according to Federal Reserve data." ...

EM managers eye huge super fund opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... Capital uses a fund-of-funds approach and has 80 research teams across 24 emerging market countries. "Only a handful of houses have that local presence and they are closed to new investors," said Feriani. For the fund manager though, the most attractive ...