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Mercer plans for post FOFA advice dominance

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
Mercer, a global industry all-rounder in research, consulting and investment funds, has its sights firmly set on the Australian financial advice industry, with plans to become a dominant player within the next decade. In its target of the retail market ...

Trio chair ban and Richard jailed

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Former chairman and director of failed super trustee Trio Capital, David Andrews, is to be excluded from the financial services industry for nine years while Astarra director, Shawn Richard, has been handed down a two and a half year jail sentence. ...

Christian Super joins Government to seed community fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... Super has teamed up with the Australian Government to provide financing for a new $20 million social enterprise investment fund. Brisbane based Foresters Community Finance will manage the Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF) with ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... While the performance fee hurdles employed by most managers in the sector are appropriate, Lonsec said the Smallco Investment Fund and the PM Capital Australian Opportunities Fund had an "opportunity to improve their alignment of interests with investors". ...

Astarra director convicted by NSW Supreme Court

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
A NSW Supreme Court judge found on Friday that a term of imprisonment would be the only appropriate punishment for Shawn "Shawny Cash" Richard, the former director of Astarra Asset Management. Justice Peter Garling convicted the 36-year-old Canadian-born ...

Planners embrace 8IP Asia Pac Partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... practices and high net worth individuals. To be available under a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), the boutique investment fund manager said investors had expressed a keen interest in the fund, but wanted a simpler vehicle. "Our marketing activities ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... membership and has been recognised on its World Honour Roll. Currently he is the Queensland Trustee for the AFA Investment Fund. Seccombe was awarded honours for service to the community through a range of charitable organisations for his work in establishing ...

Government plants $60m innovation funding seed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... invest in Australian start-up ventures, half of which has been provided by the government. Through the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), the government has invested $20 million in each of Carnegie Venture Capital, the Medical Research Commercialisation ...

UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Higher education superannuation fund UniSuper has topped the league tables for holding the most mandates in 2010 according to Rainmaker's latest Mandate Chaser report. But that is a bad thing, said John Pearce, chief investment officer of UniSuper ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
There really must be something in that age-old adage, "sell in May then go away". It's still early days of course, but if the first two May trading days on Wall Street is any guide, investors might be packing up for the entire month. Nothing's really ...