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PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... just like an unlisted fund with total liquidity. The price is closed at a known value for the buyer." Turning to the competition posed by passive funds and ETFs, which have recently enjoyed a stellar three years, Douglass is completely relaxed. "ETFs ...

ASIC would "rarely" ban products

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... commentators have been worried that ASIC would use its powers to ban products - and that this would affect innovation and competition," Medcraft noted. As reported in Financial Standard, Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane recently ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... necessarily a culture of cost control in some funds management firms - except when you hit stress in markets." On the competition front Trafford-Walker said there is about 140 equity managers but fees are still relatively high and funds were now negotiating ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... be worrying about their local counterparts and be more concerned with what international pension funds are doing as competition for assets continues to grow. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) investment conference ...

Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... hands, because we all know banks aren't super." Frydenberg previously said the government was committed to increasing competition in the default superannuation market. "Competition remains the most effective way to put downward pressure on fees, increase ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... of banking?", Professor Henry Ergas, from Monash University, said during the presentation of the research report 'Competition in financial services'. Ergas was referring to online dating services that connect married people who are willing to commit ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... the world at that point. It was only on his way back home from Europe that he remembered the "dummy stock market" competition for the Herald Sun he had participated in in high school that he realised what he wanted to be: a stockbroker. There was just ...

Four pillars policy is killing innovation: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... to poor consumer outcomes, the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) found. The research report 'Competition in financial services' acknowledges that the policy made sense prior to the global financial crisis (GFC) because it prevented ...

Managers pressured by more demanding clients

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... implementing strategies to manage it. Overall, asset managers are positive about the opportunities for growth despite growing competition and potential disruption from new entrants to the industry such as technology or non-financial services firms. Most ...

Super funds hunting further afield for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... investments that will deliver for members in both accumulation and retirement phases. There is naturally a lot of competition for assets that can achieve that. "Ultimately, investors and investment managers are in the business of generating investment ...