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Perpetual's acquisition of The Trust Company pays off

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... engaged with consultants JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson, Cambridge, Russell and Mercer. The fund has received ratings from the major research houses and managers are working on including it in the major dealer group platforms, approved product platforms ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of older workers across Australia are willing to stay in the workforce for longer and 61% cited financial security as the major reason older workers continue to keep working," she said.

Cbus opposes smaller super guarantee penalties

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Reducing penalties for employers who fail to pay superannuation is heading in the wrong direction, according to an industry super fund chief executive. Federal small business minister Bruce Billson recently introduced draft legislation aiming to reduce ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Four pillars policy is killing innovation: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... financial services' acknowledges that the policy made sense prior to the global financial crisis (GFC) because it prevented major players to merge with each other. "But the unintended consequences of the policy in a post GFC environment have been deep ...

Liquidator appointed in suicide case

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... UK-based investors relating to their investments. The complaints, which were also made to the West Australian Police Services Major Fraud Squad, followed the suspected suicide of one of the directors of the companies David Jones, and his wife Jeanette ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... financial investment in Australia to be more efficient and safer, and it will put the Australian market on the same standard of major global markets in terms of settlement timeframe," said recently appointed Australian Custodial Services Association ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI) believes more progress is needed to embed better anti-corruption and bribery disclosures in major Australian companies. ACSI says while there has been a general improvement in disclosure quality in recent years, the improvement ...

Managers pressured by more demanding clients

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... business models. The report - titled 'Opportunities for Optimism? A New Vision for Value in Asset Management' - shows that a major response to this challenge will be product innovation, with successful managers catching the next wave of growth by offering ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Our fund managers are highly skilled, competitive and efficient. This comparative advantage has the potential to become a major export. However, regulatory architecture is needed to export our services. The free trade agreement will provide this architecture ...