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Centrepoint growing wealth business

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
December half-year results for financial advice group Centrepoint Alliance were buoyed by the performance of its wealth division and the sale of its premium funding business. The ASX-listed company's wealth segment reported a 29% EBITDA increase on ...

Platinum's AUM and profit take a hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... net fund flows have been negative over the last six months, it is pleasing to report that the recent investment performance of the consolidated entity's underlying funds have been generally strong with six months returns ranging from 17.4% for the Platinum ...

Senate committee files views on super objective

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... The majority of submitters welcomed the introduction of an independent monitoring and review system to assess the performance of the superannuation system. Labor Senator and Shadow Minister for Small Business and Financial Services, Katy Gallagher, tabled ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... weight to Australian cash and lower weight to bonds compared to Canada were among the key drivers, as was the strong performance of growth-orientated assets to which Australia also had a slightly higher weighting. The assets in global institutional pension ...

New hedge funds for BetaShares

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... mitigate or hedge currency risk. Equally, YANK is designed to offer investors greater 'long USD' exposure to the performance of the US dollar relative to the Australian dollar. BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said the future direction of the ...

Xero chair resigns to advise Trump

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... "[His] skill-set is exactly what is needed to effect substantial change, including system wide improvement to the performance of the government." Liddell's resignation will take effect on Friday 20 January, alongside the inauguration of president-elect ...

Northern Trust launches sustainable real assets fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... incorporating sustainable investing principles." GRESB managing director Sander Paul van Tongeren said: "The environmental performance of buildings has been shown to have a clear link with the underlying financial performance of the assets, and with ...

Second Sydney airport lacking investment return

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... investors will be adopting a more diversified global investment strategy than previously," the survey said. "The strong performance of the Australian market, as well as the overall level of transparency that the country provides, continues to attract ...

Mercer wins $250m NZ mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... financial officer Alan Bird explained at the time: "The recommended change is not about fund performance, as the performance of TIML has been above industry benchmarks, with the PIF earning an average after-tax return of 7.0 per cent p.a. and returning ...

Asia-Pacific comes out on top in unlisted real estate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... was the only region to see an improvement in its Q3 performance out of all the regions measured due to the strong performance of all styles of funds," ANREV director of research and professional standards Amlie Delaunay said. "Europe's decline in performance ...