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Dalton Nicol Reid wins $40m Intrust mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Intrust Super has awarded a $40m mandate to Australian equities fund manager, Dalton Nicol Reid. Intrust is a boutique $1.6 billion industry super fund based in Queensland for the hospitality sector with 130,000 members and 10,000 employers. The mandate ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... efficiently regulating the self-managed superannuation sector, according to Challenger's chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Cooper said that, contrary to perceptions that it is out of its depth in this burgeoning sector, the ATO is becoming ...

BT announces upgrades to ageing Wrap platform

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... with the first upgrade expected in the coming months. In a market update presentation to analysts, chief executive Brad Cooper said the new integrated platform would transform how customers build, manage and protect their wealth. The upgrades are aimed ...

Member direct investment at "high water mark": AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... world by storm," he said, adding that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Haynes shared the stage with Challenger's Jeremy Cooper, who agreed with Haynes' less-than-positive view of MDI. He said MDI was a "blend" of SMSF and professionally-run funds, and ...

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found little evidence that 'emulation funds', designed to cut trading costs in multi-manager portfolios, outperform the funds they track before fees and taxes. Emulation funds are designed ...

CMCRC launches regulator tool to test market "fairness"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has launched a tool for reviewing the impact of market design changes in capital markets, in a bid to defend against knee-jerk regulatory responses to crises. The Market Quality Dashboard enables ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... precious investment capital safer for longer in their retirement. "We're delighted to work in Australia. When I look at the Cooper review and the literature that is coming from some of the superannuation funds, it's obvious that it's a market that is ...

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... that fail to meet their obligations, the main being to declare the fund non-compliant. But under proposals made by the Cooper review, and which the government has said it will legislate on this year, the ATO will soon have a wider range of options. "For ...

Insto investors urged to challenge private equity ethics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... decided to stop making new commitments to PE in favour of other asset classes, in the wake of the 2010 Super System Review (Cooper Review). A large number of PE funds have signed up to the UN-supported PRI and have complied with reporting and other implementation ...

High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
High frequency traders (HFTs) improve market fairness by reducing end-of-day price dislocation, new research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found. CMCRC examined data from 22 exchanges from around the world, from 2003-2011 ...