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Perpetual reveals details of first LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Perpetual Investments has unveiled the details of its first listed investment company, Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited. Trading under the ASX code PIC, the company is designed to deliver regular income and long-term capital growth through ...

Bennelong appoints national account manager from Zurich

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed a former Zurich Investments executive to the role of national account manager. Zac Wallis will join on 27 October and be based in the Sydney office. He will contribute to the business development function across ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmark across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years, the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. The worst offending sector ...

Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Financial advisers imbued with the most trust by their clients are better qualified and more experienced than their counterparts, according to research by the Beddoes Institute. The data and benchmarking company analysed thousands of client ratings ...

Standard Life Investments names head of new infra debt team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Standard Life Investments has named the person to head of its new infrastructure debt team in its London office. Former head of project finance (public sector) at Nationwide Building Society Jeremy Allcock will lead the team and assume responsibility ...

Young adults know very little about super

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Young adults are 'unengaged' by and 'uninterested' in superannuation and most show no knowledge of even the most basic facts. That's according to a new survey of nearly a thousand 25-34 year olds by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation ...

Paradigm acquires Melbourne-based practice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Melbourne-based advisory firm Paradigm Wealth Management has almost doubled its funds under advice to $350 million following the acquisition of independent planning practice, Portfolio Managers. The acquisition, which was completed recently following ...

MyState Financial becomes MyState Bank

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Listed banking and wealth management group MyState Limited has changed the name of its Tasmanian-based banking subsidiary, MyState Financial, to MyState Bank, following approval from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The company ...

Findex close to acquiring Crowe Howarth

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Findex and Crowe Howarth have entered into a share implementation agreement under which Findex proposes to acquire all the shares of Crowe Howarth for $137 million. The deal is yet to be approved by shareholders but under the terms of the proposed transaction ...

JP Morgan AM rejigs Asia Pacific management team

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
JP Morgan Asset Management has handed Asia Pacific chief executive Jed Laskowitz responsibility for co-managing the group's new global investment solutions business. He will be supported in this new role by Michael O'Brien who is currently head of the ...