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AMP Capital appoints new MD

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... "Adam will continue the focus on driving AMP Capital's international and domestic growth and outstanding investment performance." Tindall will assume the role in October.

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... "fool's game" due to high headline fees and the difficulties in determining whether a given alternatives manager's performance is down to "luck or talent." Who are Australian institutions listening to? Domestically, there's definitely an alternatives ...

Macquarie awarded $2bn in mandates

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... MIRA's managed funds also undertook net divestments, although Macquarie did not give more information. The group saw performance fees reach $208 million during the quarter, mainly from Macquarie Infrastructure Company and Macquarie Atlas Roads. Macquarie ...

Financial services fail to share mental health data

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... the 87% of industry peers in the UK and 73% in Europe. "A lack of reliable and comparable disclosure of corporate performance, beyond that contained in traditional financial reporting, can undermine effective communication of these longer-term measures ...

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... a financial product." Furthermore, noting that "financial advisers... are today remunerated largely based on sales performance," the reforms will provision for non-sales key performance indicators, including understanding customers' needs, suitability ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... policy should or will do accordingly. Policymakers are expected to respond to events and to deviations of economic performance from what had been anticipated. The number of surveys and obscure indicators seen as conveying information has continued to ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Shanghai Composite Indices fell by 11.78% and 7.25% respectively. Overall they recorded US$1 billion ($1.34 billion) of performance-based losses during the month. European managers experienced losses of 1.13% amid uncertainty over Greece's ability to ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... telecom companies to drive it forward. Ba ha ha. Yes, I'm laughing... out loud. This is because when you compare the performance of the All Ordinaries index to the S&P 500 index from January 1999 - the time when the Nasdaq in rally mode but before the ...

Advice firm pays penalty for misleading claims

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... page explaining the advantages of investing in property via a self-managed super fund (SMSF), Omniwealth compared the performance of a geared property investment to an ungeared equity investment. ASIC was concerned that the webpage did not give a balanced ...

Philanthropic LICs a triple win: Wilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... good deal because if they want to invest in those managers, they don't pay the management fee and they don't pay the performance fee," he explained. But fund managers also benefit from the model: "From a fund manager's perspective, it costs you nothing." ...