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Aussie large-cap active managers endure massive outflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... it's clearly impossible for every manager to do so. Managers can launch and promote other strategies instead." Morningstar notes over the past 24 months to end of June 2015, there has been about a "10% rise in the activeness of our cohort of Australian ...

Former Mercer consultant launches research platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... side comparison of managers, and has monitoring and audit capabilities. The CRM allows research teams to track due dates, notes, and progress, fostering higher levels of team productivity and oversight. All information stored in one place, with visual ...

Seniors react to Commission's retirement housing idea

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... need that exemption because the family home is the only certainty they have in retirement. As the Productivity Commission notes, there have been multiple reviews that argue the economic point that the family home exemption distorts and constrains the ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... released two additional series of XTBs over fixed rate corporate bonds and one series of XTBs over Senior Floating Rate Notes (FRNs, or 'Floaters'). Each XTB provides investors with access to the returns of an individual underlying senior corporate bond ...

FIIG arranges $40m Sunland bond issue

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
FIIG Securities has arranged a $40 million issue of five-year fixed rate notes for listed residential property developer Sunland Group. The senior unsecured notes will pay an indicative interest rate of 7.55% and will require a minimum initial investment ...

XTB floaters listed on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Australian investors can now access senior floating rate notes (floaters) through ASX-listed exchange traded bonds (XTB) for the first time. The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has listed bonds issued by banks AMP, BoQ (two XTBs), NAB (two ...

Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... allow superannuation fund boards to draw from a broader pool of independent directors, increasing diversity. The committee notes the concerns of submitters and witnesses in relation to unintended consequences regarding representation of members' interests ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... the right amount of cover at the right age and the right type of cover depending on their life-stage. As an example, he notes that younger REST members have "a modest amount of death insurance" which he says "is enough to handle things like a funeral ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... growth in institutional allocations to alternative assets as reasons to be optimistic about the firm's prospects. He also notes that Blackstone - which now has some US$330 billion in assets under management - was the same size as his firm at the same ...

Morningstar nabs senior equity analyst from J.P. Morgan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... oversee Morningstar's Australian and New Zealand equity research, including the development of company reports, analyst notes, pick lists and industry and sector research as well as ratings. Morningstar equity analysts also publish in-depth sector reports ...