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Charity comparator to launch premium service

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
A charity comparator website co-founded by a former Lonsec general manager is set to launch a premium vetting service for wealthy donors. The Impact Suite collects data on about 56,000 not-for-profits (NFP) and charities. The free version launched in ...

IOOF expands managed accounts offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
IOOF is expanding its managed account offering to give advisers access to direct equities. Its managed discretionary account solution Managed Portfolio Service (MPS) will now include multi-asset models that combine direct equities with managed funds ...

Funds SA portfolio manager leaves, team to expand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
The $32 billion South Australian public sector fund is bidding farewell to a long-standing portfolio manager who looked after its alternatives portfolio. Clive Boyce managed Funds SA's private equity, infrastructure and opportunistic property investments ...

ASIC provides relief for naked short selling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
ASIC provided legislative relief to ETF market makers, alongside changes to short selling laws. With ASIC instruments due to expire, the corporate regulator issued a short selling instrument, which it said continues the effect of those instruments due ...

Mason Stevens launches global equity SMA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... within an SMA structure, a client's investments are not pooled with that of other investors (as they would be in a managed fund The actions of other investors do not affect all investors, and this has optimal tax benefits, he added. Franklin Templeton ...

Fidelity launches active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
Fidelity International is hoping to get a slice of Australia's $41.5 billion exchange traded fund pool with an actively managed ETF set to launch later this month. The $589 billion manager will offer its global emerging markets ETF on the ASX under ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Actively managed ETFs are one of the things that are off the table for BlackRock's Australian business at least for now, according to the newly-appointed iShares head Christian Obrist. Obrist spoke to Financial Standard about the opportunities that ...

Blue Sky refunds $4.1m overcharge

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Blue Sky is refunding more than $4.1 million to investors for incorrectly charging fees mainly across its wholesale private real estate and private equity fund. The fees, Blue Sky said, were charged in an "inconsistent" manner to what was stated in ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
SMSF investment in international managed funds, ETFs and direct shares continues to climb as exposure to cash and term deposits drops. Latest analysis from SuperConcepts shows allocations to international investments rose by 1.3% in the 12 months to ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
Nearly eight-in-ten managed funds in Australia failed to hit benchmark returns over a 10-year horizon, according to new analysis by InvestSMART. The researchers modelled Morningstar data for 5297 manager funds that have a track record of 10 years. They ...