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WAM makes alternatives play

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... investors with access to a high-quality investment manager with significant expertise in managing listed investment companies (LICS)." WAM chair Geoff Wilson welcomed the company's shareholders to a new era of management. "We believe the renewed alternative ...

Zenith defends LICs/LITs

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Zenith Investment Partners maintains that there is still merit in listed investment companies and trusts, despite volatile market conditions exacerbating their propensity to trade away from their underlying value. Zenith head of real assets and listed ...

Short consultation window for stamping fee exemption

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... The consultation window for the exposure draft set to extend the ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies and trusts is open, for a short period of time. Stakeholders have been given just one week to respond to the government's ...

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The government's move to extend the ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies and trusts is expected to provide financial advisers with some much needed certainty. Following Treasury consultation, the government made the decision ...

Australian ETF market shows strength

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... since 2016 and has become the preferred way to access diversified investments on the ASX, surpassing Listed Investment Companies (LICs). The report said socially responsible investing has become the most popular investing theme, growing 73%, due to increasing ...

Mudslinging over FASEA extension continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... and further delaying on this issue." However, the government believes the bill has little to do with listed investment companies and trusts - the focus of Labor's amendment - and hinted the opposition is aware of the repercussions of making an amendment ...

Compliance crackdown, consultations on horizon: ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... able to raise the capital like they did." The stock exchange is also looking into a consultation on listed investment companies and trusts, he revealed. "We're looking to do a consultation around LICs and LITs and exchange traded funds, just to try ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... strategies and 36 Australian small-cap strategies. This included 99 unlisted trusts, 17 ETFs, and nine listed investment companies. Following the review, four unlisted funds were upgraded, while 13 unlisted and listed funds were downgraded. Upgraded ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... while exchange traded funds showed substantial discounts for the first time on March 12, and many listed investment companies and trusts (LICs and LITs) have long traded at discounts to their net tangible assets. Fixed income markets in March had far ...

Government ignored ASIC over LIC carve-out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... expansion of the carve-out was designed to allow financial advisers to recommend clients invest in listed investment companies and trusts which pay conflicted commissions to advisers. An internal email released under the FOI request airs ASIC's previously ...