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Magellan adds infrastructure specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Magellan Financial Group has appointed a senior portfolio manager to its global infrastructure team. Stephen Mentzines joins the fund manager from ASX-listed Sydney Airport, where he was chief financial officer. Before that he was with Macquarie Group ...

Fiducian acquires second Sydney practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Fiducian Group has acquired a Sydney-based financial planning business, its second acquisition in one month. Fiducian paid $2.4 million in cash and shares and the financial planners will relocate into the group's premises. The acquisition brings an ...

NAB's Redpoint wins industry fund mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
NAB partner Redpoint Investment Management has been awarded a mandate with an industry super fund. Intrust Super chief executive Brendan O'Farrell said the new relationship with Redpoint will be "central to the ongoing success of our investment strategy. ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Look ma, China's central bank must have read the piece I've written yesterday morning calling their 1.9% devaluation a mere speck. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) topped it up with another devaluation of 1.6% by the afternoon for a grand total of ...

New Calastone service automates distribution processing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Global funds transaction network, Calastone, has launched its new automated distribution service, aimed at cutting out mistakes from manual input and shortening processing times. The distribution solution connects fund manager and client, standardising ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Roll out the barrel, roll out the barrel of fun... for it's gonna be a good day, gonna be a good, good day for Australian equities. Well, at least at the open with the SPI futures trading up 36 points. Yes, at the open, for we've been here many, many ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
If you think that the latest US non-farm payrolls report is good enough for the Fed to proceed with a September lift-off, you are correct. You are not wrong too if you think it's not strong enough for the Fed to pull the trigger in September. There's ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen believes proposed governance changes to superannuation fund boards ignore the lessons learnt from the HIH disaster. Speaking at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Bowen quoted Justice Neville Owen ...

Independent advice licensee under ASIC radar

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
A Queensland advice group has seen its Australian financial services licence questioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The regulator has imposed new licence conditions on Sentinel Private Wealth following concerns over ...

Advice licensee uses tech to bypass paraplanning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
State Super Financial Services (SSFS) has partnered with a technology provider to add efficiency to the advice process and bypass paraplanning completely. SSFS managing director, Michael Monaghan, said the company is pursuing a growth strategy that ...