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Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... recognised chief financial officer, a good compliance process, a sound business plan and independent directors. "We are seeing a huge percentage of investment operations where the due diligence team has 100% veto power. Before, the typical hedge fund ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success with the boutique investment house model. Boutiques, though no consensus exists on exactly what the term ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... measures. Wall Street provided another strong lead on Friday, boosted by a string of merger announcements last week and a huge asset sale by General Electric (GE). Shanghai surged 2.17 per cent, or 87.41 points, to 4,121.71 while Hong Kong climbed 2.73 ...

MetLife to roll out rehab program for disability claimants

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... managing disability claims - we have learned what is effective and what isn't, and we know that the ability to work plays a huge role in restoring the self-worth of people," MetLife chief operating officer Luke Banfield said. "We have been very impressed ...

Smart beta, fixed income ETFs surge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... traded products account for just 0.3% of the global bond market, there has been growing interest. The area could be one of huge opportunity for product providers, Manchanda said. Institutions are making use of fixed income ETFs for price discovery and ...

AustralianSuper adds London site to property portfolio

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
AustralianSuper has bought a 25% stake in a large mixed-use property investment in London's King's Cross. The purchase is the $84 billion industry super fund's first direct London investment and only its second in the UK. AustralianSuper will join the ...

Futuro ends AMP buyout deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... regulation, we have been able to firm up our strategic direction," Futuro managing director Dennis Bashford said. He added that "huge industry changes during the two-and-a-half years since the deal with AMP was announced played a major part in both parties ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... SMSF members' wealth sits outside super. He added that many of the most popular Australian companies held by SMSFs generate huge proportions of their revenue overseas - 95% in BHP Billiton's case. Responding to the criticism that SMSF borrowing arrangements ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... cent, official figures showed. Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras edged closer to securing a massive revamp of its huge bailout after making his case to sceptical EU leaders, while a Ukraine ceasefire was agreed. In local economic news on Monday ...

Succession planning major issue for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... they're now almost 59... And it's getting older. Each year it goes up a year according to our research. So we're not seeing a huge influx of younger people taking equity stakes."