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Top bankers get together for pro bono venture

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Paul Bassat, Suzi and Barry Carp, Peter Cooper, the Liberman family, Tracey Ryan and the Werdiger family. For more family office, philanthropy and private wealth stories checkA FS Private Wealth

Family office fintech solutions on the rise: IRESS

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Family offices are increasing demand for a technology solution that blends trading and back office management, IRESS managing director of Australia and New Zealand financial markets Kirsty Gross revealed. Speaking to Financial Standard, Gross explained ...

Old families make way for self-made billionaires

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Today's billionaires are not the heirs of wealthy families, but young self-made entrepreneurs who have a strong appetite for clever risk-taking, an obsessive focus on business and a strong work ethic. That's according to UBS and PwC's 2015 report, 'Billionaires ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Institutions' demand for alternative multi-asset real return strategies presents a cross-border opportunity for both Australian fund managers offshore and overseas fund managers at home. That was the conclusion reached by Perpetual following its recent ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... of focusing on boutiques and insists they are just as relevant as ever before, especially for high net worth and family office investors who tend to commit smaller amounts of capital than larger institutions and for longer timeframes. "They still have ...

Vantage launches SMSF-ready private equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Private equity funds specialist, Vantage Asset Management, has launched a new $100 million private equity fund of funds aimed at improving self-managed super fund investors' access to the asset class. The Vantage Private Equity Growth 2 (VPEG2) fund ...

Wealth managers need to be 'service-oriented'

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... - Connecting with clients and reinventing the value proposition", is based on a survey of 60 wealth management, family office and private bank executives in 26 countries. It suggests that clients are becoming more risk-sensitive and sophisticated in ...

Alternatives sector shaped by regulation, customer demand

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The alternatives sector is transforming due to regulatory pressures and the needs of a growing institutional customer-base, according to Lonsec's recently published Alternatives Sector Review. Lonsec's research covered 33 investment products, including ...

Asset owners throwing money away in hidden fees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
There are as many as 160 ways asset owners are likely to unnecessarily lose money to hidden costs. But the good news is they can be uncovered and eliminated. That's according to Novarca, a consultancy specialising in what it calls 'cost pattern analysis.' ...