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RBF awards $175m credit mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
Retirement Benefits Fund (RBF), the Tasmanian public sector superannuation fund, has invested US$125 million ($175.6 million) in Shenkman Capital Management's multi-strategy credit strategy. RBF chief investment officer, Dr Ian Lundy, explained that ...

DomaCom given A+

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
DomaCom Australia has received an A+ rating from Property Investment Research (PIR). The A+ rating means PIR believes this is a suitable product that has met the aggregate requirements of their review process across a number of key evaluation criteria ...

BT multi asset fund gets top Lonsec rating

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
Lonsec has upgraded the BT Active Balanced Wholesale Fund to 'Highly Recommended' - its highest possible rating. In its latest research report on the fund managed by Martyn Wild, Lonsec said the fund is "considered to be reasonably well resourced and ...

Tail risk hedging works for industry fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Vision Super has reassured local councils the $7.5 billion fund has protected its defined benefit (DB) members from share market downturns thanks to a tail risk hedging strategy. Vision Super chief investment officer Michael Wyrsch said management of ...

Platinum inflows boosted by increased marketing spend

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Platinum Asset Management's increased spend on promotion and marketing has paid off with the firm seeing a steady rise in net inflows despite facing stiff competition in the global equity space. The half-year to 31 December saw positive net investment ...

EQT reveals slight profit slide

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Equity Trustees has released its interim 2016 results, revealing a slight 8.6% decline in net profit after tax to $7 million. Equity Trustees chairman Tony Killen attributed this to "a number of substantial one-off projects along with the amortisation ...

Link Group happy with Superpartners progress

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Link Group has reported a $4 million loss for the half-year to 31 December as a result of IPO costs but says it is seeing growth in all its revenue streams and is on track to meet its full year forecasts. The $4 million loss includes costs of $26.9 ...

AIA profit boosted by Asian insurance demand

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
AIA has released its global interim 2016 results, showing an operating after-tax profit boost of 16% to US$3.2 billion ($4.4 billion). This reflects a 26% growth in the value of new business to US$2.2 billion and a 14% growth in annualised new premiums ...

ACE forced to pay $1m for poor Combined sales culture

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from ACE Insurance following an investigation into one of its divisions, Combined Insurance. Under the EU, ACE Insurance is required to appoint an independent expert to review Combined's compliance systems ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Actual total private new capital expenditures may have surprised on the upside, rising by 0.8% in the three months ended December 2015 when they were expected to drop by 3.0% but... they're still not a pretty set of numbers. Uglier still, according ...