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Sandon Capital acquires stake in LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
Activist investment manager Sandon Capital Investments has entered into an agreement to acquire a stake in a listed investment company. ASX-listed Sandon Capital is expected to acquire nearly 53 million shares in Mercantile Investment Company (MVT) ...

Consolidation hits super fund administrators

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
Two major fund administration providers are feeling the pinch of the new superannuation reforms. Link Administration told shareholders that the new Protecting Your Super Package laws will impact its earnings and operations in the 2019 financial year. ...

New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
A Sydney boutique that says the highest bracket of tax payers can lose 40% of the returns on their Aussie shares portfolio to taxes has launched a new fund aiming to solve the problem. Redpoint Investment Management is starting a quantitative equities ...

Advisers wary of unlisted assets: Sunsuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Many financial advisers believe unlisted assets lack transparency and are illiquid, growth investments. At the Sunsuper Adviser Roadshow in Sydney yesterday, an audience of advisers was informally polled on their thoughts about alternative, unlisted ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
State Street Global Advisors will launch a suite of multi-asset ETF model portfolios that aim to meet financial advisers' demand for low cost and easy to implement solutions. The portfolios fall into two investment strategies: State Street Risk-Based ...

Alternatives manager adds former Morningstar head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
A global alternative beta fund manager has added a former Morningstar head of alternative investments to its Australian team. Capital Fund Management appointed Craig Stanford as director of investor relations for the firm's US$9.7 billion Australian ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma..." Sir Winston Leonard Churchill may be describing Russia's intentions and interests when he made this now famous quote back in 1939 (before he became UK Prime Minister 1940-1945) but Churchill's ...

British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
UK members of parliament have backed a call to offload any fossil fuel investments held in the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund. More than 240 serving and former MPs have signed the 'Divest Parliament' pledge, calling on the fund's trustees to ...

Boutique fund manager rebrands

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
A boutique Australian equities fund manager has rebranded in an effort to differentiate between its wholesale and retail offerings. Alleron Investment Management has relaunched as Australian Eagle Asset Management. The move comes as the fund manager ...

Suncorp chief executive steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
Suncorp chief executive and managing director Michael Cameron will leave the company after four years in the role and seven as a board member. Suncorp chair Christine McLoughlin said now is the right time for change and indicated this will provide an ...