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AMP Capital expands US and UK-based infra team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
AMP Capital has added to its global infrastructure debt team in London and New York as it looks to further fundraising. In London, Emma Haight joins the team as director from NIBC Bank where she was vice president in the project finance division and ...

Professional planners don't accept commissions: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Professional financial planners do not accept commissions because the conflicts of interest commissions create cannot be managed, says Matthew Rowe, chair of the Financial Planning Association. "We don't believe that a commission should be payable on ...

QBE invests in Invesco property fund

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
QBE Insurance Group (QBE) has invested into Invesco's North American Core Direct Property Fund, which invests exclusively in North American direct property assets. While Invesco would not reveal the amount of the investment, a spokesperson said that ...

Dealer group Infocus buys MLC shares, becomes independent

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Dealer group Infocus Wealth Management's (Infocus) existing shareholders have bought back MLC's share of the business and will now become fully independently owned. Bucking rumours that the group was looking for an institutional parent, Infocus has ...

PC examines Weaven's 'inverted bid' infra model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The Productivity Commission (PC) has given qualified support to Industry Super Australia's (ISA's) 'inverted bid' model for investing in greenfield infrastructure projects in its draft report on public infrastructure. Informally known as the 'Weaven ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
Industry super fund HESTA has given no commitment to divest from Transfield Services, following calls for it to do so from the Australian Services Union (ASU). The ASU national executive adopted the resolution on Wednesday, on the grounds that ASU members ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
Nah, I'm not falling for that one again. No mas Virginia! Equity markets closed (to borrow Coles new ad) "down, down, deeper and down" overnight. The headlines have easily pinpointed the cause... "U.S. Stocks Retreat, Treasuries Rally on Ukraine, China" ...

J.P. Morgan launches two wholesale funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
J.P. Morgan has entered the Australian wholesale investor market with the launch of two funds: the JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund and the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund. The former is an unconstrained strategy with "a diversified ...

Lonsec launches ETF model portfolios for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
Lonsec has launched five exchange traded funds (ETF) model portfolios available for advisers who want to give their clients access to low-cost diversified portfolio solutions across traditional asset classes. The portfolios cater for investors with ...

State Super to combine with two NSW state funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
The New South Wales government has announced it will amalgamate the management of the assets of State Super with that of two other state-run funds. The management of SAS Trustee Corporation, the trustee of State Super, will merge with that of the Safety ...