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Big obstacles for funds going it alone on PE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... attracting super funds to direct their own PE investment placements, this approach is not for everybody, reveals new research from McKinsey & Company. The global management consultant has just produced a report that found private equity investing around ...

Consumers reluctant to use online advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... trust online advice and still prefer to meet their financial planner face to face. A Financial Services Council (FSC) research into consumers' digital engagement with superannuation and wealth management found that only 13% of Australians sought financial ...

TT International adds two to investment team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... Australian Equities while Duncan Robertson joins as senior investment analyst and portfolio manager for the group's Asia research platform based in Hong Kong. Li join TT International in November 2013 from Manulife Asset Management, where he worked for ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
"An idyllic tropical life" is how David Atkin describes his childhood in Papua New Guinea. While his parents taught in a local school, he spent his days "wandering around the forest, being looked after by the locals, exploring every day, having a lot ...

Think tank calls to end super tax concessions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... towards the wealthy and should be scrapped before it becomes an expensive drag on the country's finances, according to new research from the Australia Institute. The think tank said that tax concessions on superannuation will cost the budget around $35 ...

The latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app.

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... www.financialstandard.com.au, can also be accessed in the app through the 'Breaking News' section. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and publishers ...

US fight over adviser fiduciary rules nears end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... the individuals it is intended to protect." Global consultancy group Cerulli Associates has meanwhile released consumer research revealing that nearly 40% of investors have indicated they have an increased need for investment advice. "Investors are expressing ...

ANZ head of aligned licensees leaves, joins van Eyk

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... operations and risk management. He has also been appointed head of finance for van Eyk Advice's parent company van Eyk Research. Flynn has over 20 years' financial services experience working for companies including ANZ, ING, Zurich and AXA Ireland. ...

ANZ launches bank-aligned news site

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... release. ANZ claims that the new outlet will be "much like a traditional news site" and deliver "quality journalism, research and opinion." However, BlueNotes falls far from traditional media. The bank's logo is clearly visible at the top of the site ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... high-profile book criticising high frequency trading (HFT) has been branded 'nonsense' by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) with the group urging regulators not to respond to the scaremongering. The research body has released two ...