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Frontier expands business, hires five

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Frontier Advisors has bolstered its consulting teams with five new hires in a bid to grow the firm. Paul Tulloch will join the alternatives and derivatives research team as a senior consultant after spending eight years as a derivatives trader with ...

Legalsuper expands member service capability

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... category at the Australian Web Awards. Proebstl said the fund has transitioned to daily unit pricing from weekly pricing in a bid to increase transparency and immediacy for member account updates. The industry fund predominantly serving the legal community ...

Blue Sky dissolves chief executive role

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
Blue Sky is bidding farewell to its chief executive, after a strategic assessment determined the role "is no longer required". Joel Cann left the organisation effective Friday, less than two months after he joined the company. Cann joined from property ...

Sandon Capital acquires stake in LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... unlisted investment company and two other wholesale funds. Last year, Mercantile made an unsuccessful off-market takeover bid to acquire all ordinary shares of Yellow Brick Road for 9 cents per share.

Court throws out Aurora fund takeover bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... proceedings. Aurora Funds Management, which acts as a responsible entity for several funds, had a tough year with a failed takeover bid for Molopo Energy and $1 million that went missing from Aurora Property Buy-Write Income Trust that was later traced ...

Super funds can spearhead infrastructure: Expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... infrastructure space, but are they able to take more of a lead? A bit like the private sector coming in with an unsolicited bid to do something," Thomas said. The economist posed the future of infrastructure development in Australia could see super funds ...

ASIC names new default super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
The corporate regulator has named the superannuation fund its employees will now be defaulted into. From July 1, new employees of ASIC who do not nominate a superannuation fund will be defaulted into AustralianSuper. From that time, ASIC will employ ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... weeks post-election, once policy uncertainty is removed - investors crave certainty." She added high yielding stocks will be bid as the franking credit system is no longer in the firing line. "Banks and financial services companies will rally as the ...

Bravura raises $165m for GBST bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... businesses and institutions. Its clients include the big four banks, Baillieu Holst, Bell Porter and Morgans. On April 12, Bravura bid $2.50 to acquire all of GBST's shares which would have valued the smaller company at about $170 million. GBST's ...

Boutique fund manager launches LIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
A boutique fund manager is launching a listed investment trust in a bid to raise $500 million. Regal Funds Management's Regal Investment Fund (RF1) provides exposure to a selection of alternative investment strategies and risk-adjusted absolute ...