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Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
An increasing number of Australian investors are planning to make investments in overseas assets over the next three months, partly driven by a surprise lift in appetite for fixed income investments, according to the latest Certitude Global Investor ...

Cash Converters to raise $60m through bond issue

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Alternative credit provider and pawnbroker Cash Converters is the latest company to issue an unrated corporate bond through fixed income broker FIIG Securities. Cash Converters hopes to raise between $50 and $60 million through the unsecured bond issue. ...

Aussie ETF use reaches new level of sophistication

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
The sophisticated ways in which Australian advisers are using exchange traded funds belies the relative immaturity of the local market, according to BlackRock's global ETF business iShares. BlackRock director and iShares specialist Jonathan Howie said ...

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Australian pension fund growth was twice the global average in 2012, according to a global survey of the world's 300 largest funds conducted by US newspaper Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. While total assets of the world's largest 300 pension ...

Hedge funds fear 'draconian' disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Superannuation funds could find themselves locked out of the best international private equity and hedge funds if the government's "draconian" portfolio holdings disclosure requirements go through unamended, representatives of the alternative investment ...

AVCAL chief executive resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
Katherine Woodthorpe has announced she will step down as chief executive of the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) after seven years in the role. Woodthorpe made the announcement last night, and her resignation will be ...

Netwealth nabs AMP exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Netwealth has appointed John Boston to the role of national advice manager of the Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA), part of the netwealth Advice Group. In addition to his role at FPSA, Boston will hold an executive role at netwealth Advice ...

Mercer trumpets "lifetime super concessional cap"

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Mercer has proposed that lifetime concessional caps on superannuation contributions would be a fairer system than the current annual concessional cap of $25,000. This policy would particularly help those approaching retirement who have not benefited ...

Cbus to divest tobacco holdings as stocks fall from highs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Cbus Super will divest its holdings in tobacco companies in the interest of members and their long-term investment returns. The super fund has written to fund managers to instruct them to divest tobacco holdings immediately. Where Cbus invests through ...

APRA releases data risk management guide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the final version of its prudential practice guide on the management of data risk. The 'Prudential Practice Guide CPG 235 Managing Data Risk' (CPG 235) is applicable to all APRA regulated ...