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Maple-Brown Abbott global infra fund added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure (GLI) fund is now available for investment through Asgard, BT Wrap, Macquarie Wrap and Netwealth. The news comes shortly after the fund was awarded a 'Recommended' by Zenith Partners, a '4 Star Superior' ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... was established in July 2006 as a private equity, venture capital and unlisted property business. Sowerby got his second huge piece of luck after deciding to take the Private Equity and Venture Capital course at Harvard Business School in 2007. "That ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... you're in the same time zone and you can talk to people you know in the same part of the day," Turnbull said. "We have the huge advantage obviously of a gigantic superannuation industry, a gigantic funds management industry and that is an enormous base ...

Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... superannuation as far more than just a way to save for their retirement. "It's become a de-facto tax avoidance scheme whereby huge sums are put into superannuation purely to save income tax, the result being that superannuation balances are being generated ...

Multi-asset funds see huge lift in inflows

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
Multi-asset (MA) funds are set to remain at the top of the inflow tables in Europe as advisers turn to them in the face of FOFA-like reforms, according to global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. The research says more advisors are recommending MA ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... Duncombe continued. "The battle is now one of digital leadership and the pace of innovation." In Australia Citi has seen a huge transformation in how it acquires customers. Four out of five customers are now acquired via a digital channel, a proportion ...

Robots can't read your dreams, advice firm warns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... and allows banks to cross-sell wealth products to their banking customers. "The push towards more automated services is a huge wake up call for the industry," she said. "People planning for retirement need to consider whether they are content with obtaining ...

PractiFI expands with $1.3m seed funding

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Financial advice practice administration platform PractiFI has closed its seed funding round after raising capital to expand overseas. PractiFI raised $1.3 million in angel investor funding from Australia, Malaysia, the UK and US. "We are hugely excited ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... technology as a sector to watch. "Education, and specifically edutech services is an attractive space for Blue Sky - there are huge technology gaps to fill in the curriculum," McMurdo said. Blue Sky Private Equity is a division of Blue Sky Alternative ...

The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... 14 years ago," explained Kleinwort Benson Investors chief investment officer Noel O'Halloran. "What's more, there has been huge under-spend in water infrastructure improvement so there are lots of opportunities for investment." According to a McKinsey ...