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Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... public offering (IPO). The listed investment company (LIC) is a fund of funds that gives investors access to global fund managers who manage the capital pro-bono so 1% of the fund's net assets can be donated each year to Australian non-profits committed ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... funds are foreign concept to most people so we came up with the listed managed fund structure," Douglass explains. Fund managers in Europe and the US have been lobbying regulators to try and build similar structures in their markets to out-manoeuvrer ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
The Australian funds management industry is failing to attract female fund managers, even if research proves that gender diverse investment teams outperform those who are male-only. At a time when the financial services sector is pushing to increase ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... risk, compliance and governance issues with these funds. "Our role as independent responsible entity is to assist fund managers structure their products for Australian institutional and retail investors to ensure their funds are operated in a manner ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... notes the rise of fintech startups like Robinhood, which offer free solutions to trading customers, and overseas fund managers considering direct-to-consumer platform offerings with low basis-point investment fees and close-to-zero administrative costs. ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of information for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues of the companies that it invests in through fund managers. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson told Financial Standard that the organisation engages with companies on behalf of its ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... establish. "We already had relationships with some of the industry funds," he recalls, "and we were talking to the fund managers like Greg Perry, Chris Cuffe and Peter Morgan, trying to get them to put trades through our business. We had to sell them ...

OneVue wins ChinaAMC mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the BNP Paribas Securities Services' contract to outsource its unit registry facility earlier this year, two other fund managers with 20 additional funds were on boarded recently and we are in the process of transitioning another seven fund managers ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... positioned. Our $2.5 trillion pool of managed funds is the largest in Asia and the third largest in the world. Our fund managers are highly skilled, competitive and efficient. This comparative advantage has the potential to become a major export. However ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... September 2014. At the same time, the Dodd-Frank reforms in the United States and the European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive have heightened the regulatory environment that funds are facing. A recent Financial Times investigation found ...