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Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Investors' search for yield in the current low rate, low-return perfect storm has boosted hedge fund inflows. Funds under management for the sector were up 21.7% for the two years to December 2014, according to Rainmaker Data. But a great idea, an obscure ...

Hockey commits cash to infra partnerships plan

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Australia will provide $25 million to the World Bank Group's Global Infrastructure Facility, said Treasurer Joe Hockey in a statement. The Facility will be used to build public-private infrastructure partnerships to streamline "greater private sector ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Australia's top bankers will have to explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive ...

JPM appoints Goldman Sachs managing director

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
J.P. Morgan has announced that Paul Uren will join Grant Dempsey as co-head of global investment banking for Australia and New Zealand. Uren joins J.P. Morgan from Goldman Sachs where he was managing director and co-head of investment banking services ...

La Trobe reshuffles senior executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
La Trobe Financial recently announced a wealth of changes to its senior executive team. Senior vice president and former chief investment officer Randal Williams is now the chief lending officer and will be responsible for overseeing the real estate ...

Perpetual boosts multi-asset team

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Perpetual Investments has made two senior appointments to its diversified strategies team. David Hudson has been appointed to the role of head of asset allocation in the diversified strategies team. He joins from BlackRock where he was managing director ...

Midwinter launches scaled advice division

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Software provider Midwinter has set up a scaled advice division and appointed a former Fortnum Financial executive to lead the company's strategy in this area. Halie Samson will be head of scaled advice at Midwinter and was previously project manager ...

Standard Life absolute return bond fund added to platform

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
The Standard Life Investments Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies (ARGBS) has been added to the Macquarie Wrap platform. ARGBS is the second multi-asset fund from Standard Life Investments available to wholesale investors, following strong demand ...

Ethnic diversity more concerning than pay

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Industry executives see the lack of women in senior roles as a critical issue, but think that ethnic diversity is more of a challenge than equal pay, a Women in Banking and Finance (WIFB) survey found. The organisation surveyed about 400 attendees to ...

Media Super doubles investment menu

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Boutique public offer fund Media Super has defied industry trends by more than doubling the size of its investment menu. Following a strategic redesign, Media Super has increased the number of pooled investment choices from 10 to 23, not including the ...