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Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation may make Storm or Trio Capital cases "more likely" as "complete rubbish." "The ALP has made it very clear and Chris Bowen said it yesterday that they will oppose these amendments; there is no question that ...

Advisers can increase portfolio value by 3%

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
Good financial advisers could add about 3% worth of measurable alpha to a client's portfolio, according to upcoming Vanguard research. "Be a great behavioral coach and get clients to stick to asset allocation, as opposed to chasing performance," Vanguard ...

Bennelong Long Short Equity Management launches new fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
Bennelong Long Short Equity Management (BLSEM) has launched a new Australian equities strategy, the Bennelong Alpha 200 Fund (the Fund). The Fund is a long/short market neutral strategy with the objective of generating consistent returns regardless ...

Tarrant appeals AAT banning order

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... and negligent, if not wilful, breach," the tribunal said. Tarrant will now appeal this decision on the grounds that former ALP Attorney General Justice Duncan Kerr has denied him "procedural fairness, as well as, natural justice and has made a number ...

Managed accounts take the hassle out of hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
Institutional investors can gain greater flexibility at a lower cost and without the need to manage their investments as closely by using a multi-strategy managed account solution for their hedge fund allocation, according to Permal senior vice president ...

SSgA awarded VicSuper ESG mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
VicSuper has awarded State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) an active global equities environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) mandate worth $310 million. The mandate will invest in a portfolio of global equities that integrates ESG factors ...

Former AIST boss joins Eaton Vance

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
Eaton Vance Management International (EVMI) has appointed former Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST ) chief executive Steve Gibbs as senior advisor to its Australian business and its two affiliate fund managers, Parametric and Hexavest. ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013

Women's retirement anxiety is increasing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... parental leave scheme offers a partial solution by including superannuation in the six month paid leave compared to the former ALP government's scheme that did not. Gender inequity in superannuation highlights a key failing in the Australian superannuation ...

AustralianSuper awards Sevior $1.2bn mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Fund manager John Sevior's Airlie Funds Management has attracted close to $1.2 billion from AustralianSuper. The former Perpetual star fund manager founded Airlie last year and AustralianSuper awarded Sevior's start-up with its fifth largest mandate ...