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WDE board pushes for takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... comprising Paul Clitheroe, Richard Morath and chair Alan Schoenheimer, said they have carefully considered the offer and recommended to accept the bid in the "absence of a superior proposal from another party." On August 30, WAM Capital lodged a bidder's ...

Investa Office Fund's Canadian bidder ups the stakes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... offer would take IOF's value to close to $3.4 billion. The offer is unsolicited, and non-binding and the IFML board recommended unanimously the Blackstone offer in its meeting adjournment announcement. Oxford's Friday offer is a 7% premium to Thursday's ...

FASEA busts dishonest education providers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... graduate diploma for new entrants and one bridging course covering the FASEA Code of Ethics and legalities have also been recommended. The FPA believes the financial adviser exam to be an open-book, multiple choice only assessment purely focused on the ...

Best-in-show super fund list should be 11: WSSA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Australia is calling for employer funds to be included in the Productivity Commission's proposed best-in-show list of recommended default superannuation funds. WSSA chief executive Douglas Latto said if the Productivity Commission's recommendations for ...

Pinnacle expands distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... strategies, a market return absolute return strategy and a high conviction strategy. The latter already had a highly-recommended rating when its launch was announced.

ACDC to power new battery ETF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... still in its infancy so companies included in the ACDC ETF and involved with this research must show they have been recommended by the US Department of Energy," Walesby said. Speaking of the Future Present range, Walesby said ETF Securities' idea was ...

Royal Commission challenges super regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... said it was open to Commissioner Kenneth Hayne if they engaged in misconduct and breached corporations law. Hodge recommended Aon Hewitt may have breached the Corporations Act with regards to three financial advisers moving clients to a choice product ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... sections 52(2)(c) and (d) of the SIS Act. Industry fund Hostplus' retention strategies were scrutinised and Hodge recommended it may have engaged in conduct falling below community standards by keeping inactive, low balance members. Letters sent ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... initiatives alone are unlikely to be sufficient to restore these products to stable, long-term profitability. KPMG recommended a "fundamental rethink" by redesigning key product features. Overall, retail life insurance drove the substantial increase ...

YBR rejects 'opportunistic' takeover bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... would acquire all the shares in IPE, a private equity-focused listed investment company. IPE directors unanimously recommended shareholders accept the offer in the absence of a superior proposal, with the Mercantile Investment Company subsidiary offering ...