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Legg Mason adds SIV funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Legg Mason is packaging its four Significant Investment Visa (SIV) complying funds as a ready-made solution for private wealth advice firms. The fund manager has four funds that comply with SIV requirements - Australian cash, listed property, equity ...

AMP director Adrian Emery departs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
AMP director of strategic marketing and sales Adrian Emery has left the company, AMP has confirmed. The financial services firm said Emery had made a huge contribution to the successful integration of the new sales division following AMP's merger with ...

'Business as usual' for Perennial despite legal bid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
Fund manager Perennial has said its 'business as usual' despite a failed bid for $35 million in unpaid fees by three former directors. Executives Mike Crivelli, Anthony Patterson, John Murray and Kerry Series originally sold their 21.85% stake in Perennial ...

Trust Company still recommending Perpetual proposal

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
The Trust Company continues to recommend the Perpetual proposal to acquire the 100% of its shares after independent expert Ernst & Young analysed the synergies of a potential merger with Equity Trustees (EQT). The board of The Trust Company said it ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
It's another trading day for the record books on Wall Street. And this despite last night's weak reports - existing home sales fell by 1.2% to a less than expected 5.1 million annualised rate in June and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index remained ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
The upcoming start of the reporting season serves up an opportunity to short companies likely to post disappointing results, according to Pengana Captial market neutral portfolio manager Phillip Boustridge. Market neutral equity strategies combine long ...

Market Vectors ETFs appoint two directors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
Market Vectors ETFs, the exchange traded fund business of Van Eck Global, has appointed two directors for its new Australian business. Matthew McKinnon has joined as director for intermediary and institutional, responsible for institutional and intermediary ...

Hedge funds can reduce risk, despite reputation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Despite their growing popularity, particularly in the institutional space, hedge funds are still widely misunderstood by investors - they often have a reputation for being high risk, expensive, illiquid and difficult to access. But according to BlackRock ...

One in five ASX200 companies ignoring social media

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
More than one in five of Australia's largest companies are failing to make use of social media, according to a study by business researcher BRR Media. While the majority of ASX200 companies increased their social media usage in the past year, BRR's ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The top 10 infrastructure fund managers by capital raised in the last 10 years accounted for 45% of the total raised by closed-ended infrastructure funds in the last decade, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. In its July edition of Infrastructure ...