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Global body calls for Asia Funds Passport rethink

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... funds, regardless of existing home country advantages. According to ICI Global, a level playing field would support competition among firms and choice for investors. "Tax certainty is critical for funds to make the economic investment to expand and for ...

Demographic shift injects growth into healthcare property investment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Care assets versus 16% in the US. Pratt added that as healthcare properties rise in profile and become attractive, competition for assets from onshore and offshore investors had intensified. "We believe there is significant potential for private capital ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... protections and deal with some of the unintended consequences of Labor's changes where that is necessary to maintain competition in the financial services market in the public interest. "I look forward to the opportunity to discuss these issues with ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... potential custody clients. He said the initiative is "getting a lot of interest". "There's obviously a huge amount of competition at the retirement stage from the big four targeting superannuation assets looking for the members effectively to withdraw ...

Sunsuper prepares for end of super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... assumption that this is going ahead at some point, though we don't know when. Our expectation is that awards will open to competition, we've factored that into our forward plans." In addition to working on retention strategies for existing employers ...

Bank cross-sell growing but slowly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... the relatively slow improvement in bank customer wallet share were "lack of incentive for customers to consolidate, competition from specialists providers such as for superannuation and insurance, lack of product awareness, some concern regarding the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... Frontiers Conference begins. In equities news, the Federal Court is expected to release its judgment in Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's case against Coles over shopper docket fuel discounts. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed ...

Bank ads confusing: research

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... should not be overlooked by the FSI. "The FSI's terms of reference include meeting the needs of users and driving competition. One step in the right direction will be to mandate advertisements that people can understand."

Super sector eyes Qld ports and generators

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... of Port of Newcastle for $1.75 billion, more than double its projected price. This suggests there will be intense competition over the lease of Queensland's ports. Some in the superannuation industry are concerned that the degree of interest is leading ...

Kerr Neilson: Against the grain

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... on. "Investing is like passive hunting. It's great fun! So the key here is that you're always trying to outrun the competition, you're always trying to find a new angle on something," he says. "The more you see, the more you think you can see. You build ...