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APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Group insurance risk management will be top of the agenda in a number of thematic reviews to be carried out by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), according to the regulator's general manager Greg Brunner. Speaking at the Australian ...

Altair launches two funds for retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Altair Asset Management has launched two Australian equity funds for the retail market. The Altair Income Fund focuses on sustainable dividend income while the Altair Advantage Fund aims to achieve medium to long term capital growth. Altair is a high ...

Windham wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Boston-based multi-sector manager Windham Capital Management has been awarded a $150 million mandate by an unnamed "prominent industry super fund." This is the first mandate in the Australian market for Windham Capital Management, following a number ...

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 ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms must be debated as legislation in Parliament, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair and former NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins. The government is currently ...

AMP Capital appoints fixed income head

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
AMP Capital has appointed Simon Warner as head of Fixed Income as part of the ongoing AMP restructure. Warner was the AMP Capital head of Macro Markets within the fixed income team for the past seven years and replaces Mark Beardow, who was announced ...

ASX managed fund service gets go-ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
The ASX's mFund Settlement Service (mFund), formally known as AQUA II, has cleared the final regulatory hurdle and is provisionally set to launch at the beginning of the second quarter this year. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre ...

Centrepoint makes four key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
Centrepoint Alliance has appointed a head of Distribution Strategy and Marketing, a national manager of Life Insurance, a head of Research and a regional manager for Queensland and northern New South Wales. Neil Rogan is the new head of Distribution ...

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 ...