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Planners keen to leave big dealer groups

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Increasing numbers of financial planners are expressing interest in moving away from the big vertically integrated dealer groups, according to netwealth Advice Group's head of advice Simon Micallef. "Since February the netwealth Advice Group has had ...

State Street appoints head of alternatives in Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... continue," he added. "As the alternative fund management industry continues to grow in both size and complexity, institutional investors are becoming more sophisticated and demanding and are allocating more assets to private equity, real estate and hedge ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... on infrastructure investments over the past two years, including engagements for some of the largest pension and institutional investors in Australia, Asia and North America. "Our work has spanned manager selection and due diligence, strategic portfolio ...

IFM Investors adds global index equities capability

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... cap weighted and 'better beta' strategies. The new asset class will be offered on a mandate basis to Australian institutional investors. "There is a growing demand amongst Australian investors for offshore investment product, with the role of index equities ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... proper advice, as well as changing disclosure obligations so aligned advisers and dealer groups are forced to reveal institutional ownership. Read all Financial Standard coverage of the FSIA here A

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
Australia's largest financial services institutions have argued that vertical integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration ...

Future Fund appoints CIO from within

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... said. "With 20 years' experience in researching and making investments, as well as building investment teams and institutional portfolios, Raphael has the commercial and leadership skills to help us refine our investment thinking and processes," he added. ...

Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... impact on the domestic corporate bond market, we can attest that the system does not create a bias for professional institutional investors who work from first principles and regard tax as only one of many factors when giving effect to an investment ...

Perpetual launches Global Share Fund on profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... fund in the first quartile for one, two and three years when compared to relevant peers in the Mercer Australian Institutional Universe Survey.

Infrastructure valuations at all-time highs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... great deal of capital available, with fund managers holding a record $100 billion in uncalled capital and with many institutional investors planning to grow their allocations to infrastructure demand looks set to remain strong. These increases in valuations ...