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AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... scale, trading liquidity and operational flexibility." The changes follow complaints by fund unit holders, including LIM Advisors, the fund's largest independent unit holder, currently holding 12.36% of its shares.

Link Group shuffles board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... Australia/New Zealand managing director Glen Boreham, ASIC External Advisory board member Sally Pitkin and first Frontier Advisors managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker as non-executive directors of its board. "We are delighted that Glen, Sally and ...

FEATURE - Retirement income: Finding the right path

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... early," Graham says. The need for advice both pre and post-retirement was highlighted in a recent State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and Rice Warner report - The Australian Retirement Vision Survey. SSGA head of portfolio strategists Asia-Pacific, Jonathan ...

SSgA launches smart beta multi factor ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched a smart beta exchange traded fund (ETF) that combines value, volatility and quality. The SPDR MSCI World Quality Mix Fund tracks the MSCI World Quality Mix Index and has been listed on the Australian ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... the link between superannuation fund growth and investment fees would reduce costs remarkably, according to Frontier Advisors director of consulting Fiona Trafford-Walker. Trafford-Walker said if super funds grew at 10% per annum for the next five years ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... that some investors use Australia as a proxy to invest in Asia. "We're attached as a beta to China," State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific Mark Wills says. "But ours is a horrendously bad index," he adds ...

Cameron Harrison added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Cameron Harrison partner, Paul Ashworth admitted that the firm was not well-known outside its home town of Melbourne, but advisors and investors can be reassured that the investment team has been managing funds together for over 20 years. "We manage ...

EQT joins Calastone network

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... competiveness." EQT partnership with Calastone follows RARE Infrastructure joining the service in September 2014, Dimensional Fund Advisors in August 2014, BT Financial Group in January 2014 and IOOF in November 2013.

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... opaque family office sector. "Dodd-Frank gives an exemption to family offices that has always existed in the Investment Advisors Act 1940. It's a loop hole big enough for a 10 ton truck to drive through," he said. In 2011 George Soros took advantage ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... year. But after managing to juggle so many activities during the early years of his career, today State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific tells Laura Millan that he has learnt to relax watching Youtube ...