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European managers in property buying spree

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015

Maritime Super appoints NAS as custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Maritime Super has reappointed National Australia Bank's Asset Servicing business as custodian for a further three years. NAS will provide custodial and investment administrative services to the $5 billion industry fund for maritime workers. Maritime ...

Afiniation adds weight to Citi fintech initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Fintech network Afiniation has announced it will work with Citi on the global financial services firm's latest financial technology initiative. The Citi Mobile Challenge in Asia Pacific is referred to by the bank as a "next-generation accelerator" that ...

Affinia announces adviser award winners

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... achievements of Affinia's risk advisers, the awards are split into four categories. The first, Adviser of the Year, was won by Franc Mark Sterling's Lachlan Baker. Practice of the Year was won by Langley Securities' Peter Blassis, Emerging Gun of the ...

Fiducian reports growth after restructure

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
Fiducian net profit after tax grew 28% for the year to 30 June 2015, during which the financial planning group restructured and acquired a number of advice businesses. The group's profit was $5.7 million, up from $4.5 million the year before, while ...

Countplus profit hit by end of loyalty payments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Countplus has seen its after-tax profit fall 12.2% as loyalty payments paid by Commonwealth Bank ended. Net financial planning revenue was down 15.9% due to payments to 16 member firm franchisees expiring. Excluding the impact of these payments and ...

William Blair earns Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
The William Blair Emerging Markets Leaders Fund has received its first rating by research house Lonsec. Lonsec said the fund's strengths include "the manager's history of managing emerging markets portfolios" and also "a quality portfolio management ...

Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
QIC has bought a $236.6 million (US$174.4 million) shopping centre on behalf of a major Australian institutional investor. The acquisition represents QIC's first 100% owned US property and it follows the investor's two-year US real estate joint venture ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... major currencies. Could it be that the PBOC is just doing a Swiss National Bank (SNB) - when it abandoned its defence of the franc early this year - in anticipation of being drowned by the flood of franc shoppers ahead of the ECB's QE? The PBOC knows ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund product strategist Matt Estes believes there is a lot to like about Japan and Europe when viewing markets and asset classes across the world. Speaking at a BlackRock event on Thursday, Estes said the fund - which manages ...