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Instos offer advice at a loss to drive product sales: EY

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions have undervalued advice for decades by offering it at a loss to lead clients into product sales, Ernst & Young (EY) have said in their submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). EY argued that decades old industry ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HOSTPLUS had joined forces with Charter Hall Group to acquire a $603 million portfolio of properties from Woolworths-owned ALH Group. Woolworths described the deal, which is due to go down in October, as "one of the largest hotel ...

Partners Group fund added to major platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Global private equity investment manager Partners Group has had its Partners Group Global Value Fund accepted onto the BT SuperWrap and Macquarie Wrap platforms. Partners Group Global Value Fund provides investors with exposure to a mature private equity ...

Cbus launches self-managed option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Cbus has today launched its member direct investment (MDI) option, Cbus Self Managed, in a move to provide an alternative to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). The option gives members access to ASX 300 listed companies, 16 Exchange Traded Funds ...

Strong rise in risk market inflows

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Inflows to the total risk market grew 11.4% from $11.8 billion to $13.2 billion in the 12 months to 30 June, newly published data from Plan For Life shows. The group risk sub-market showed the strongest growth with inflows up 19.1%. This was driven ...

HESTA CEO to depart fund

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Long-serving HESTA chief executive Anne-Marie Corboy has announced plans to leave the fund. In announcement made this afternoon, Corboy has said that she will leave HESTA at the end of February 2015 after 16 years at the helm. No replacement has been ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association urged the Financial System Inquiry to review the definition of 'financial product advice' in the Corporations Act and said that the current regime was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry ...

AMP Capital invests in North American renewable assets

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
AMP Capital has grown its global infrastructure debt platform, forming a new partnership with Alterra Power Corporation. AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has arranged and structured a C$110 million subordinated loan for Alterra, a leading global ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has obtained the support from the Coalition to conduct a new Senate Economics Committee inquiry to scrutinise the financial services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
I used to believe there were three evil things in the world but while I've changed my mind on the third I think I now have to add a fourth. The first was George Bush for his trickery that fooled the Western world into kicking the Middle East ants' nest ...