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New deal opens Europe to Aussie AIFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... - including hedge funds, private equity funds and retail funds - in the EU under the rules of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The arrangement includes most EU members, and some non-members including Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. ...

Property fund veteran Wist joins Hadley Green

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... previously a senior consultant at Atchison Consultants in Melbourne. He has more than 20 years' experience in investment fund evaluation, strategy and governance, property valuation, research, risk assessment and corporate advisory. "We are delighted ...

Gonski urges Australia to look long-term

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... unless we understand the people, their rules and culture," he said. The Future Fund is an independently managed investment fund funded by the Australian Government. It was established in 2006 with the purpose to meet the Commonwealth's superannuation ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... regulation, the Financial Times has reported. Their retreat comes in response to the arrival of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive, which has been devised by European lawmakers to rein in the hedge fund, private equity fund and ...

ASIC takes aim at charitable investment funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a consultation paper proposing changes to existing exemptions for charities that raise investment funds. The proposed changes will affect approximately 200 charitable investment ...

FFMA is on track to break $100bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Fund, as well as $12 billion in special purpose nation building funds. These funds are the $4 billion Education Investment Fund, the $5 billion Building Australia Fund and the $3 billion Health and Hospitals Fund. The FFMA has also continued to deliver ...

ANZ provides banking services to DomaCom

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
ANZ will provide cash and transactional banking services for the soon to be launched DomaCom Property Platform, that will offer investors a fractional property investing solution. The platform to be launched in the second half of 2013, will allow investors ...

KordaMentha appointed trustee to LM fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... Limited, as joint trustees of the LM Managed Performance Fund (LMPF). The Fund is the second largest mortgage investment fund in the LM group and has raised approximately $350 million from unit holders. It was previously under the control of administrators ...

Don't sell your fixed income investments: JBWere

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
Even though bond yields sit at record low levels, it would be unwise for investors to sell out of their fixed income assets, warned JBWere's Giselle Roux. The chief investment officer and head of investment strategy group at the private wealth specialist ...

MLC awards mandate to US fund BlueMountain

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
A private investment fund run by a former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive has won its first Australian mandate. MLC will invest into the BlueMountain Capital's BlueMountain Credit Alternatives (BMCA) fund, but would not comment on the mandate's value. ...