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T. Rowe Price appoints former Ashmore exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
US-based global investment manager T. Rowe Price has appointed former Ashmore country head David Frazer as its new senior institutional sales and relationship manager for Australia and New Zealand. Frazer previously held business development roles in ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

Cbus to launch 'self-managed' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Industry fund Cbus will launch a member direct investment (MDI) option in mid-2014, following the lead of a number of other industry funds seeking to stem the flow to self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Referring to the new option as a 'self-managed product' ...

Challenger launches CDI takeover bid

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Challenger Life has made an off-market bid to become the sole owner of Challenger Diversified Property Group (CDI). Challenger Life currently owns almost 60% of CDI. It has offered to buy all remaining units at a price of $2.74 a unit, almost a 5% premium ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Financial System Inquiry should look into ways of making direct investment in infrastructure and corporate bonds more accessible to self-managed super funds (SMSFs), the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has argued. SMSFs currently ...

Super fund CEOs compete on breast cancer fundraiser

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
HOSTPLUS chief executive David Elia is the super industry's frontrunner in the race to see who can raise the most money for breast cancer research. As part of Women in Super's Mother's Day Classic - the largest breast cancer research fundraiser in Australia ...

Mercer launches retirement adequacy index

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Mercer has launched a new tool that allows superannuation funds to measure whether their members are on track for a comfortable retirement. The Mercer Retirement Readiness Index (RRI) compares a members' projected retirement income against the ASFA ...

ASIC approves Managed Accounts IPO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Managed Accounts Holding Limited, the holding company for managedaccounts.com.au, is on track to become listed on the ASX after it successfully lodged its prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for an initial public ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... hunting ground. But according to some of Australia's leading boutique fund managers, appearances can be deceiving. James Fernyhough reports. Australia's share market is probably best known for two things: it is dominated by financials and mining companies ...

SMSFs need no more regulation: Treasury

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) industry does not need to be prudentially regulated, Treasury has argued in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry. It said that a major attraction of SMSFs was the light-touch regulation, providing ...