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William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
US fund manager William Blair has launched its first unit trusts to Australian institutional and wholesale investors. The Global Leaders Equity Fund, Emerging Markets Leaders Equity Fund and Dynamic Diversified Allocation Fund were selected from William ...

RBA questions super fund infra investment

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has questioned the role of superannuation funds boosting funding for infrastructure investment, saying that it is not appropriate to mandate funds to invest in assets to meet "broader national objectives." In its ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... from revealing fees in the online superannuation calculators. "Starting in 2004 IFSA aggressively lobbied ASIC to issue a class order that would amend the Corporations Act so IFSA's members could offer online calculators that would not comply with the ...

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Two of the major superannuation industry bodies have used their submissions to the Financial System Inquiry to call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian ...

AMP opens three funds to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
AMP Capital has made three of its funds available to retail investors for the first time. The funds are the AMP Capital Dynamic Markets Fund, Australian Equity Income Fund and Income Generator. The first two funds have previously only been available ...

Individual cover through super, key to insurance recovery

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... presentation of the Apathy to action research by MetLife and the FSC, Green described insurance through superannuation as "a world-class, incredibly efficient and broad distribution platform." He said that the focus should not be in default covers, but ...

Capital Fund Management launches half-price hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... institutional investors for a 1% annual management fee plus a 10% outperformance fee. CFM has also included a special founder share class for early investors at an even lower fee level. The fund aims to fill a gap in the market for super funds and other ...

Wealth management sector key to Australian growth: Deloitte

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... its expertise and the probity of its wealth management sector." By 2030, three billion people in Asia will join the middle class and by 2050 the region will account for more than half the world's financial assets. Brown said this combination, together ...

Australian investors optimistic of hitting financial goals

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... despite a little over half of investors surveyed expect interest rates to rise in 2014 and the fact that the domestic asset class has been outside the top 20 best performing bond markets globally in the past two calendar years. "While investors increasingly ...

Macquarie adds Government Bond Fund to SIV suite

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Macquarie Specialist Investments (MSI) has expanded its offering to wealthy migrants with the launch of the Macquarie Significant Investor Visa (SIV) Government Bond Fund. The Macquarie SIV Government Bond Fund invests into bonds issued by Australian ...