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Throw out relative performance tables: Finsia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
The way superannuation funds measure performance should be thrown out and replaced with a system which discourages short-termism and helps consumers think about their retirement pot as an income pool, rather than a pot of gold. That is the view put ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower following a sell-off on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all ended more than half a per cent lower overnight after the closely-watched Apple product launch did little to excite ...

Towers Watson shakes up manager research teams

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Towers Watson has appointed Luba Nikulina as its new global head of manager research following the appointment of Craig Baker as global chief investment officer. Nikulina has been with Towers Watson for nine years, most recently holding the London-based ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HOSTPLUS had joined forces with Charter Hall Group to acquire a $603 million portfolio of properties from Woolworths-owned ALH Group. Woolworths described the deal, which is due to go down in October, as "one of the largest hotel ...

FIIG to manage $50m bond issue for 360 Capital

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
360 Capital Group is the latest company to bring a corporate bond offering to the market with the help of FIIG Securities. The property investment and funds management group is looking to raise $50 million through a senior unsecured note offering though ...

Cbus launches self-managed option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Cbus has today launched its member direct investment (MDI) option, Cbus Self Managed, in a move to provide an alternative to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). The option gives members access to ASX 300 listed companies, 16 Exchange Traded Funds ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
The share market is lower as investors practice caution ahead of the latest economic data from China. Most sectors of the market were lower, although the big mining companies were higher, despite further falls in the price of iron ore. CMC Markets sales ...

Questions raised about independence of van Eyk board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
One of van Eyk's major shareholders has expressed concern about the make-up of the under-fire research and asset consulting company's board. Australasian Wealth Investments (AWI), which owns a 36% stake in van Eyk, remains concerned that there are currently ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
In July, National Australia Bank announced to the ASX that it was "undertaking discussions with a number of Global Custody providers" over the future of its custody business, NAB Asset Servicing (NAS). While NAB described it as a "strategic partnering" ...

Crisis deepens for van Eyk Blueprint funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
The van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Fund and van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Plus Fund are the only surviving products remaining in the Blueprint series following the decision by Macquarie to terminate a further nine portfolios that it acts as responsible ...