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Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
More than three quarters of Australia's online retail investors could have difficulty accessing the ASX's mFund service because their existing broker does not offer access. According to figures from Investment Trends, collectively CommSec, E*Trade ...

AXA ESG SmartBeta fund available to retail investors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
Retail investors with an interest in responsible investment can now access AXA Investment Managers ESG SmartBeta fund. The AXA IM ACWI SmartBeta Equity Fund is now available on the Asgard platform after having been seeded with $55 million from Financial ...

Naos to launch long/short equity LIC

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
Naos Asset Management has lodged its prospectus to the ASX to IPO its second listed investment company (LIC), the Naos Absolute Opportunities Company. Naos hopes to raise $50 million by the end of October from private investors, institutional funds ...

Volatility fund gets first ratings, platform listings

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... described the fund as an "antistock" and said it can fit within the 10% or 15% alternative asset allocation in a retail investor's portfolio. The fund also received an AA rating from van Eyk.

SMSF collapses imminent in hunt for yield

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
A chase for yield, combined with investor empowerment and lack of education could be the perfect storm for a large scale self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) collapse, according to Aberdeen Asset Management (Aberdeen). Speaking at a media briefing ...

Coffey to raise $40 million via bond market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Professional services consultancy Coffey International will undertake an unsecured corporate bond offering to raise $40 million, with FIIG Securities acting as the lead arranger. FIIG Securities chief executive Mark Paton said the company was pleased ...

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 ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The technology behind managed discretionary accounts (MDA) allows small investment players to act as if they had the scale of the industry's large institutions, SS&C Technologies head of Australia and New Zealand Nadine Moore said. Speaking at the inaugural ...

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 ...