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Legg Mason receives first mFund inflow

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Legg Mason has received its first inflow through ASX's mFund one day after listing six funds on the settlement service. The first investment was in the Western Asset Australian Bond Trust, and came through online broker Bell Direct. Legg Mason's other ...

Aberdeen funds added to mFund service

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Five Aberdeen Asset Management funds are now available via the mFund Settlement Service. The Aberdeen funds offered on the new service cover a range of asset classes including emerging market equities, Asian equities, global equities (including a hedged ...

EQT adds Dundas Global Equity to mFund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Equity Trustees (EQT) has made the EQT Dundas Global Equity Fund available on the ASX's mFund settlement service. The addition brings the total number of co-branded funds distributed though EQT to 15. EQT Dundas Global Equity invests in 60-80 companies ...

Momentum for mFund service gathering despite uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... Trustees has said it is starting to see momentum building for investors to transact through the ASX's mFund Settlement Service. The group says applications for funds provided by two of its clients, PIMCO and Armytage Private Funds, are being made through ...

First transaction takes place on ASX mFund service

MARK SMITH, ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The first transaction of using the ASX's much-anticipated managed funds settlement service dubbed mFund took place this week, just ahead of its official launch in Sydney today. APN Funds Management and Bell Direct were the first participants. ASX senior ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
China's short-to-medium-term economic challenges should not distract investors from the long-term rise of the country as a global financial power and the investment opportunities that its emergence will create, according to AllianceBernstein director ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... (ASX:ASX-AU) and Bank of China (Shanghai Stock Exchange: 1988-SZ) said on Tuesday that they will provide a yuan settlement service to Australian and Chinese financial markets by mid-year, marking the latest step in the yuan's development as a global ...

ASX managed fund service gets go-ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
The ASX's mFund Settlement Service (mFund), formally known as AQUA II, has cleared the final regulatory hurdle and is provisionally set to launch at the beginning of the second quarter this year. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre ...

ASX managed funds services gets ASIC nod

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has cleared the most significant hurdle on the road to its 'mFund Settlement Service' - the third incarnation of AQUA II - after the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) gave it the go-ahead. ...

ASIC warns planners, be careful who you hire

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has warned financial services licensees to be cautious when hiring new advisers. The warning follows a string of actions against licensees for failing to comply with their Australian financial ...