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Insurance bonds back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... assist in reducing the cost of aged care. "Insurance bonds for many clients can be superior to superannuation, private trusts, testamentary trusts and it is superior to holding investment through a private company." In the 1980s, insurance bonds were ...

Super funds continue to recover

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... monthly occasions in the past 34 months. Not-for-profit funds achieved median 12 month returns of 1.8% and corporate master trusts -0.1%, resulting in a segment gap of 1.9 percentage points, albeit this gap is down from 2.3 percentage points last month. ...

Macquarie profit drops 24.6pc

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... contributed $A265 million to results, down 4% on the year prior as fees were eroded by the conversion from cash management trusts to accounts in 2010 and a reduction in assets under management. The Group is cautious on outlook for FY13, with predictions ...

Trustee reforms risk being neutered

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... executive and operation teams into management companies that the fund then contracts in a similar way to how staple property trusts operate.

BNP Paribas IP, MFS part ways

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... "sufficient size, presence and recognition to enable it to assume distribution responsibility and direct management of the trusts it oversees." BNPP IP said it will now expand its focus to further widen its product offering to its Australian and New ...

Estate planning specialist joins Equity Trustees

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... to the newly created role of senior manager - estate planning, reporting to Lachlan Wraith, head of personal estates and trusts. Hacker joins Equity Trustees (EQT) from Moores Legal where her role included providing legal advice to accountants, financial ...

GMO shuts Aus equities

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... Rainmaker Research. GMO primarily services an institutional client base with a minimum investment of A$500,000 in its unit trusts. The Australian equities division functioned as a team of four run under the leadership of Geoff Wells, ex-Macquarie Investment ...

Platform FUM plummets by $16.5bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... market now sits at $411.3bn according to new data from Plan For Life, which was broken down into wraps, platforms and master trusts categories for the research. "Uncertain, volatile and more often than not negative underlying investment markets were ...

ASIC wants more pay disclosure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... Options provided included providing members of the KMP with a pro forma letter with instructions for nominee companies or trusts on not voting and confirming that the share registry service provider, if used, has excluded the relevant votes. "ASIC encourages ...

Australian Ethical builds adviser products

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... super fund far more marketable." Australian Ethical manages the investments and super savings for over 18,000 individuals, trusts, companies and organisations.