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Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... uncomfortable truth is that Australian venture managers haven't done a good job. They haven't delivered returns. It's not anything from the regulatory side or any structural friction - it's simply because we haven't had a lot of successful venture capital ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... industry such as fossil fuels. "Every industry has disruption to some extent. It's not just fossil fuels it can be almost anything - transportation, consumer products, technology, telephony, etcetera," Jonsson said. "All of our focus is around these ...

Super tax reform on hold for election

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Shadow Treasurer said there had been two years of talk from the government about tax reform and they have "ruled out doing anything about some of the substantial issues raised in the white paper like high income superannuation." Bowen believes there ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... than they were one year ago, 14% are saving less and 55% are saving about the same amount. One in 10 hasn't contributed anything to their retirement accounts this year or last, this is the highest level seen in previous polls dating to 2011.

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... services. "But they were also paid $5 million for other services," Bennett continues, "and while I don't think there was anything untoward in the work KPMG were doing, the report was right to identify it as a potential conflict of interest." Bennett ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Douglass says that the disclosure is far more stringent than in the unlisted space where funds are not required to reveal anything. Meanwhile, traditional listed investment companies don't even have to publish their net tangible asset value every day. ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... Catherine Allfrey said that she has not seen much change in the presence of women in the sector over the last years and, if anything, the overall number has decreased. "Lots of women took redundancy packages during the GFC. In investment banks and stockbroking ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... we feel our clients are lucky to get exposure to those particular managers." The changing adviser value proposition If anything, Hamilton believes the rise of managed accounts in financial advice is more to do with the wider regulatory climate and a ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... I type - Heyon, marriage equality and that renewed push for an Australian Republic. And who's to say Tony didn't get anything done? He stopped the boats didn't he? Sadly, if the current thrust in Australian political dynamics continues, I fear that the ...