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Perpetual sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
Perpetual has reached an agreement to sell its mortgage processing business to FAF International Property Services Australia, an affiliate of First Mortgage Services. Plans to sell Perpetual Lenders Mortgage Services (PLMS) were announced as part of ...

Treasury Group makes more Asian moves

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Treasury Group has acquired a 20% equity stake in Singapore based multi-strategy Asian equities manager, Octis Asset Management. Treasury Group (TRG) said that it had also acquired an option to increase its stake by 10% if requirements linked to new ...

Media Super funds film

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Media Super has announced the release of the latest film that has been jointly funded from a film finance facility that it participates in. "The film titled 'not suitable for children' is one of a series of local film & TV productions that Media Super ...

Pipeline Partners makes HFM bid

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Pipeline Partners Australia has made a binding $1.23bn takeover offer for the Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund. "The Hastings Funds Management Ltd (HFML) subcommittee of independent directors is currently considering the terms of the proposal and ...

HESTA income stream phases out risk

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
HESTA has launched a new retirement solution that the health and community services industry super fund said has "turned conventional retirement product thinking on its head." HESTA's new investment strategy for the fund's post-retirement product - ...

Aus Super hands Orion mandate to Fidelity

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Australian Super has moved an Australian equities mandate worth $500 million to Fidelity, from Orion Asset Management. An Australian Super spokesperson confirmed the switch but declined to comment on the reasons behind the change which will hand the ...

Austock sells PFM to Folkstone

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Austock Funds Management has reached an agreement to sell its Property Funds Management business to Folkstone Limited, leaving Mariner Corporation's takeover bid in doubt. Darren Olney-Fraser, Mariner chief executive officer, told Financial Standard ...

Macquarie AS updates term deposit offering

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Macquarie Adviser Services has updated its term deposit offering for advisers as the investment option grows in popularity among self managed superannuation funds. The update adds online maturities and data feed improvements that aim to streamline the ...

AMP Capital, Aberdeen score Advance mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
AMP Capital and Aberdeen Asset Management have won fixed income mandates from Advance, a specialist asset management business owned by Westpac's BT Financial Group. The mandates will form part of the Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend Fund ...

ASFA backs CSIRO/Monash superannuation research alliance

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has released a discussion paper in support of the research alliance between the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Monash University. "We look forward to working with the ...