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Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... industry who have spent months gearing up for compliance with the AML/CTF Act." AML/CTF covers banks, remittance companies, coin dealers, casino operators and gaming companies. They must develop programs to identify, mitigate and manage risks associated ...

Meet the mini-institutions

For all the talk about the investment industry ignoring Gen Xers and Gen Yers in favour of baby boomers, one industry expert has said the segment, which he refers to as "the mini-institutional investors", are not well served. Julian Smith, a director ...

Resources boom gone in three years: Putnam

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
New transport and resources infrastructure arriving in the next three to four years could lead to the end of the current global resources boom, according to Shigeki Makino, Putnam Investments chief investment officer of global core equities. He said ...

FPA chair joins FPSB

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair Corinna Dieters will represent Australia in the nine-member global governing body of Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB). FPSB is a non-profit international organisation that manages and develops ...

ING IM tailored to suit

ING Investment Management has restructured its existing management team to cater for recent developments in the investments industry, particularly growing institutional demand for alpha/beta-specific strategies. It's not quite a radical departure from ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... benchmark. Small caps have generally outperformed large caps over the past three years and caused a drag on the portfolio. We coin this phenomenon the 'Small Cap Effect'. The only problem, according to Inalytics Asia Pacific managing director Amanda ...

Apostle adds global LPTs

Apostle Asset Management is tapping into the growing institutional demand for global listed property trusts (LPTs) after it signed a distribution deal with US-based property specialist AEW Capital Management. Apostle, formerly IXIS Asset Management ...

RaboPlus cuts entry fee to 25bp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
RaboPlus, one of the younger entrants to the local managed fund market, is to give investors an early Christmas bonus when it reduced its entry fee by 50 basis points to 0.25 per cent until the end of the year. The fee reduction applies to all funds ...

Australia's growth spurt

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
Everyone's working and everyone's shopping and that's what will keep driving our economy, according to data released yesterday on Australia's economic growth forecasts. Like a healthy teenager, Australia's economy is exceeding all expectations with ...

ASIC calls for tighter employment checks

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Standards Australia have launched a new handbook to give employers a reference-checking framework for financial advisers. ASIC developed the handbook, Reference Checking in the Financial ...