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Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Perpetual Corporate Trust has been appointed to provide responsible entity services for seven funds. In the past three months, Perpetual has won mandates with Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities High Conviction Fund, Aviva Investors' Multi-Strategy ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... annuity from the outset of saving. Rajan said those kind of funds are still in their infancy but are generating a lot of interest. He added target income funds run like a defined benefit fund in that there is a liability benchmark. "Again these funds ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... singing Queen's "Save me, save me, save me I can't face this life alone..." And thus, here we are willing the RBA to cut interest rates again - evidenced by the drop in the A$ to below US$0.70 overnight. The A$ has rebounded since and is currently flashing ...

Government must not mandate products for super members: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia said the AIST supports more flexibility around retirement product development but the federal government should not be mandating particular products for super members. Opening ...

FSC, FPA support ASIC user-pay model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Both the Financial Services Council and Financial Planning Association of Australia have voiced their support for an industry funding model for ASIC. On August 28, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg welcomed industry consultation on the proposal while ...

JBWere appoints philanthropic services head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
JBWere has appointed a new head of philanthropic services. Shamal Dass has been with the philanthropic services team since 2012; up until his new appointment he was a director. Prior to that, he was head of sales - trustee and fiduciary services at ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... policy in Europe and the United States." But with monetary policy set to tighten and investors expecting an increase in interest rates in the US, the fund has significantly increased its cash exposure and is expecting that returns will be lower. "We ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has launched its $700 million Aberdeen Alternative Strategies Fund (AASF). By using what Aberdeen described as an "Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regulated investment structure," the ...

Future Super launches fossil free index

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Investors interested in Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed companies considered to be fossil fuel free and sustainably sound have been given a helping hand. Today Thomson Reuters and Future Super have launched two indices aiming to serve growing ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... having concerns about securing their retirement plan with far less reliance on Centrelink. Wade says there is a lot of interest in making sure members have tax effective arrangements in place and that they've got flexibility to adapt to circumstances ...