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LaSalle sells interest in Sydney office building

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
LaSalle Investment Management has sold its 100% interest in a Sydney office building for $91.9 million. LaSalle sold the investment property on behalf of its LaSalle Asia Opportunity Fund IV (LAOF IV) to a client of UBS Grocon. The asset was acquired ...

Strong passive flows force managers to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
Flows into passive strategies have forced active fund managers to lower their fees, global research by US-based management consultant Casey Quirk has found. Passive strategies accounted for 93% of total net new flows at registered products in the United ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... butter' assets. At the same time, lines are blurring between individual 'asset classes' within this group, as investors focus more on underlying return drivers rather than 'asset classes,'" she said. Zinurova added that Australian investors remain very ...

Arrive appoints BT veteran

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... Bank of Ceylon in Sri Lanka. As reported in Financial Standard, he stepped down from his position at Advance in April to focus on Volunteers to Assist Children with Disabilities, the charity he continues to run with his wife. At the time, he criticised ...

SMSFs gear up for advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... interest and international shares." SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said another interesting finding was the focus on risk by those trustees who understand their SMSF investment strategy. "The most commonly cited factors in developing ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
A problem with the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation's bank has delayed the superannuation payments to thousands of retirees. The CSC said on Friday morning that "about 99% of payments by value and volume were processed yesterday and that they ...

US family office association expands to Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... entrepreneurs, families and business leaders. Earlier, she worked as a senior executive for an Australian family office. James will focus on increasing the FOX membership base in the region and will be running the FOX Family Enterprise Council in Australia ...

ASIC bans former risk adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
ASIC has banned a life insurance adviser from former Macquarie Group subsidiary Risk Advice Specialists. Risk Advice Specialists, which described itself as "100% backed by Macquarie," was a boutique risk-focused dealer group established in 2012. It ...

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... $1.56 stronger at $87.86, National Australia Bank gained 79 cents to $34.26 and Westpac lifted 98 cents to $33.47. The key focus this afternoon is the Reserve Bank's interest rate decision at 1430 AEST.

Clydesdale sell-off still NAB priority

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... the ASX, NAB said that the 70-80% Clydesdale demerger to shareholders (and IPO of the remainder) will "enable a greater focus on building a stronger Australian and New Zealand business." "The transaction is a substantial and complex undertaking subject ...