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Brierley bids for wound-down scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... September 2010, Brierley made an offer for 4.8 cents per share for the remainder of the fund. The fund's residual assets are notes backed by loans to agricultural managed funds which held a carrying value of approximately $3.6 million in cash and equivalents ...

ClearView rejects PE bid

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... A$0.50 in cash for each ClearView share is inadequate and the offer materially undervalues ClearView. The Board further notes that the bid is subject to a number of conditions, including a minimum acceptance of more than 50%," said the statement. The ...

Climate change already an insurance risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... lead to losses on a scale never before experienced, insurers are not waiting for researchers to produce all the answers," notes a report the US Insurance Information Institute that was published in February this year. A report from insurer Munich Re ...

Handle churn through dealer groups, don't target advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... and life companies to manage the small portion of advisers who engage in 'churn' via such means as reduced commissions, notes their submission. Asteron Life's submission was based on a survey of 70 independent financial advisers, who expressed concerns ...

UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... pays for the platform service hinders transparency and has the potential to negatively affect competition in the market," notes the report. Even more confronting for an industry where payments to aligned distributors have in the past been the core of ...

SWFs to reach $30tr in 20 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... and is on its way to reaching $US30 trillion over the next 20 years provided there are no significant capital draw downs, notes Rainmaker in its upcoming Roundup report. Reflecting the dominance of resource revenue in SWF assets, the Middle East makes ...

As many smartphones as people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... increasingly flow into tablet usage, is that 80% of children under the age of 15 already regularly access the internet, notes analysis from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Social Trends studies. As these younger consumers mature they will force super ...

Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... the future economy] is more likely to threaten financial services than enable it to grow as fast as it has in the past," notes the report. Explaining how the revenue generating distribution structures that are currently the sector's mainstay will be ...

Shareholder backlash hits Macquarie MGU

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... Board will continue to manage the fund in the interest of all stockholders," said a statement issued by Macquarie. "MGU notes that, since the Global Financial Crisis, the Fund's discount has narrowed significantly while at the same time it has increased ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... for Europe to sort itself out. You don't want to be left holding euros if Europe's worst nightmare happens and those euro notes you own become as useful as toilet paper. But what about contagion to the rest of the world? Certainly. Financial market volatility ...