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ASIC appeals Macquarie's Storm settlement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... decision to approve a settlement between the former clients of Storm Financial and Macquarie Bank. The settlement follows a class action brought against the bank by Sydney law firm Levitt Robinson in the wake of the margin loans scandal which led to ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... known as Tail-Risk Parity (TRP). "TRP takes the concept of risk parity, in which capital is allocated so that each asset-class contributes equally to overall portfolio volatility, and improves upon it by rejecting volatility as the measure of risk, using ...

Bendigo Wealth launches new low-risk income fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Bendigo Wealth has launched the Sandhurst Strategic Income Fund for risk-averse investors who want a regular income stream in excess of what they are seeing from their term-deposits. The new fund is a low-risk investment option which pays quarterly ...

ASIC to accept submissions for 'hedge fund' definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... product disclosure statement (PDS) on or before 22 June 2012. Last December, ASIC extended to June 22, 2014, the interim class order relief from the shorter PDS regime for multi-funds, superannuation platforms and hedge funds. In June 2012 ASIC released ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... funds for 2011 and 2012, contrasting short and long term returns for funds stratified by size as well as reviewing asset class performance. The study yielded mixed results showing scale to be an affect for 2012 although, while returns for large $1 billion ...

Property investments see surge in confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
Sentiment for listed and unlisted property has improved over the last six months with the vast majority of fund managers and analysts now anticipated moderate to strong investment growth from the sectors over the next 12 months, according to the findings ...

IFM wins $300m Cbus cash mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Industry superannuation fund Cbus has awarded Industry Funds Management (IFM) with a $300 million cash mandate. Cbus executive manager - investment strategy Kristian Fok said that the decisiob was made due to IFM's reputation as a debt specialist, with ...

AMG deepens Australian focus with new role

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has appointed Cameron Dickman to the newly created role of director, sub-advisory distribution for Australia. Dickman will be responsible for retail and wholesale business development for AMG's affiliates. AMG said in ...

AQR Global Risk Premium Trust opens to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
AQR Capital Management (AQR) has introduced a new unit class to its within the AQR Global Risk Premium Trust in a bid to attract Australian retail investors. The new Class 1F units come with additional disclosure and a lower minimum investment of $25,000. ...

Research reveals gender gap in share appetite

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... women tend to have a lower preference for shares overall than men, younger women invested more aggressively in the asset class than men. The March quarter analysis gave further indication of the stark differences between males and females overall equity ...