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BetaShares funds awarded 'Recommended' ratings

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
Research house Zenith has awarded 'Recommended' ratings to two BetaShares funds. The ratings were given to the Australian Top 20 Equity Yield Maximiser managed fund (YMAX) and to the FTSE RAFI Australia 200 ETF (QOZ). The YMAX fund provides investors ...

Merrill Lynch Equities Australia handed $96,000 fine

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... market. Merrill Lynch also failed to prevent an erroneous order into the ASX Trading Platform which resulted in a market for Class A non-voting common stock in News Corporation, not being both fair and orderly. The penalty refers to a trade made by a ...

AMP adds listed infra to SMSF Suite

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... to access the best opportunities in listed infrastructure on their own. Listed infrastructure is a relatively new asset class, which presents a lot of good growth opportunities particularly given our fund looks internationally for the best investments." ...

Wealthy investors bullish thanks to advice

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
High net worth investor confidence is up, bucking a trend of lower confidence across the market as a whole, according to the latest Certitude Global Investments investor intentions (CGIII) survey. The CGIII, which collates the views of over 600 actively ...

Macquarie adds SMA option to platform wrap

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
Macquarie has launched separately managed accounts (SMAs) as an investment option on its platform, the Macquarie Wrap. This will allow advisers and their clients to access an extensive range of SMAs, managed by investment managers and covering a range ...

Bennelong names new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed a new chief executive officer to commence on 20 October. Craig Bingham joins Bennelong from US fund manager Federated Investors, where he was chief executive for the Asia Pacific region. He has over 25 years ...

Why are bonds no longer a safe haven?

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... increase in demand for so-called safe investments such as bonds, but this has also altered the risk profile of the asset class, according to McNaughton. "There is an increase in demand for safe assets, which are increasingly becoming a risky asset class. ...

Netwealth brings portfolio management tool in-house

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Netwealth has fully integrated the SMART portfolio management tool into its platform to improve user experience and client access to information. SMART was previously outsourced, and is a real time modelling and rebalancing system which provides advisers ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers should be forced to undergo mandatory ethics classes as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the professional standards of the industry, the not-for-profit superannuation industry has argued. In a joint submission to the Parliamentary ...

Towers Watson shakes up manager research teams

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... structure so that we continue to provide a sustainable competitive advantage for our clients. "We have long been 'asset class' agnostic and operated in line with broadly defined investment return drivers when developing investment strategy and portfolio ...