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HUB24 doubled FUA in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
HUB24's investment and superannuation platform doubled its funds under administration during the year to June 30, 2015. Funds under administration were $1.7 billion, up 100% from the year before and 14% more than the previous quarter. The platform also ...

David Koch joins forces with Adviser Ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
Sunrise co-host David Koch has become a shareholder in financial adviser review service Adviser Ratings. The Adviser Ratings platform lets consumers search, compare and review their financial advisers, and was recently revamped to make use of the data ...

TCorp becomes $70bn investment giant

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has become one of Australia's top 10 asset managers after State Super outsourced its funds management activities to the now $70 billion investment giant. This is the latest phase of an amalgamation process that started ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Risk advisers expressed concern that the industry-led risk reforms package ignores the problem of vertical integration and client-driven policy churn. Synchron director Don Trapnell told Financial Standard that the reform improved on the initial Trowbridge ...

Investors concerned smart beta lacks transparency

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Investors fear that smart beta indices lack full transparency on methodology and risk analytics, global research found. "Respondents appear to have major concerns about the quality of these products," the EDHEC-Risk Institute 'Investor Interest in and ...

New video series demystifies hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
London-based alternatives investment specialist Man Group has released a series of seven educational videos aimed at demystifying some of strategies and key concepts from the world of hedge funds. The short videos have been made for Man subsidiary AHL ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
If it weren't serious dineros we're talking about, I would be laughing...seriously. Yes Virginia, Greece is still the word with newswire services reporting that the duelling parties have upped the ante and hardening their stances. Greek PM Tsipras accused ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Larger superannuation funds appear to have no scale benefit when it comes to getting a good deal on group insurance premiums, the latest study from Rainmaker shows. The Autumn 2015 Rainmaker Superannuation Benchmarking report analysed 15,408 risk options ...

Cbus adds property, infrastructure investment options

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Cbus has added property and infrastructure as standalone investment options within the fund's Self Managed platform. The options will be available form 22 June 2015 and they will allow eligible members to invest in large-scale assets that they would ...

FIIG to arrange record bond issue

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
National transport and logistics company SCT Logistics will undertake Australia's largest unrated bond issue for a private business through a dual-tenor issue of $75-85 million. The issue, which will be arranged by FIIG Securities, comprises two types ...