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Van Eyk set to make announcement on future

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
Troubled research and asset consultancy firm van Eyk will make an announcement to its shareholders regarding its future in coming days, the company said. A spokesperson for van Eyk told Financial Standard that the company was "working on finding a solution ...

Prominent families back Future Generation philanthropic fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... high profile manufacturing dynasty, the Smorgon family, are among the initial investors in the Future Generation Investment Fund, which has officially commenced trading on the ASX. The new philanthropically-focused Listed Investment Company (LIC) raised ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Corporation, REST, HESTA, Sunsuper, Cbus, ESS Super, Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super. Japan's Government Pension Investment fund once again topped the list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was followed Norway's ...

Star managers launch fund-of-funds in support of children's charities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... listed investment company that has no fees and donates 1% of assets to children's charities. The Future Generation Investment Fund (ASX:FGX) combines the skills of star managers Wilson Asset Management's Geoff Wilson, Paradice Investment Management's ...

New infrastructure fund for SMSFs launches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... infrastructure has been launched. Chaired by Pacific Hydro director Geoff Coffey, the Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund (IPIF) is a pooled vehicle investing in unlisted infrastructure fund managers. Former Russell Investments and Telstra Super ...

CFS launches range of SMAs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
Colonial First State has launched a suite of separately managed accounts (SMAs), now available to Commonwealth Private clients. The 11 different SMAs cover a range of strategies, from conservative to growth options. Some are wholly managed, while others ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Catholic Super has become the first investor in a new actively-managed AllianceBernstein Australian equities investment fund which aims to help investors in or near retirement. The Fund will form part of diversified investment options available to Catholic ...

APEC releases Asian Funds Passport discussion paper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
The federal government, with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), has released a consultation paper on the Asia Region Funds Passport. The paper was authored by the passport working group, which includes Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, the ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
In an era when many investment managers are engineering overly complex, multi-layered model-driven strategies, traditional managers focused on long term fundamentals are finding a receptive audience. "It's performance, performance, performance. It's ...

US retirement assets reach US$23tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The US retirement assets market reached a stellar US$23 trillion at end 2013, up 16% through the year. But while the figure, at roughly 14 times the amount in the Australian superannuation system, seems astronomical. It is actually corresponds similarly ...