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Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... only solution and, ironically, have also been part of the problem, in some cases. "I like to think that organisations like ours are necessary only in the early phase of super fund evolution. Ultimately judgements about governance, sustainability and ...

SuperAlphaFund closes shop in Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... Super Alpha Fund 1. "ASIC seems to be under extreme pressure concerning their handling of alternative investment funds like ours. "Unfortunately, it seems to us that this pressure has resulted in a lack of consistent interpretation and application by ...

Five Oceans gains China and India fund mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
Five Oceans Asset Management has been selected by financial planning group Garnaut Private Client Advisers to manage its China and India investment fund. Ross Youngman, chief executive at Five Oceans Asset Management, said Garnaut Private Clients had ...

Manion leaves ipac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
Sally Manion, head of ipac Financial Planning is leaving the firm next month while an executive search is underway for a new general manager ipac Financial Planning. In an email to ipac's equity partners, Neil Swindells, ipac chief executive, said Manion ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Three leading placement agents in Australia have filed a joint submission to the Cooper Review, stressing that the system in Australia is more transparent and markedly different to the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, one of the ...

CalPERS champions placement agent reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
The $200 billion CalPERS is lobbying for legislation that requires placement agents to register as lobbyists, and be subject to the reporting and ethics rules under the California Political Reform Act. In light of recent allegations that placement agents ...

Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... especially in the area of new business processes. "We focused on the UK, because that's a market that's quite similar to ours in terms of how products are distributed. "But also interestingly, [it's] a market that's gone through a large transformation ...

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... fees and the performance fees are higher... there's a big difference in fees between those and say infrastructure funds like ours, Lazard or Magellan," said Dell.

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...

Ban flipping arrangements: ISN

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... of the change. "[For example] some companies charge a fee for that [transfer] - it varies from company to company... but ours is very minimal," he said. The spokesman also said there was "very little difference between the fee structure between the corporate ...