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PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... developed the group's funds management division in the region: "The challenge was to try to build the business from the bare minimum, from zero assets under management." But after more than a decade at Citi, an opportunity came up that would test Kelaher's ...

CBA, NAB execs join Finsia board

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... director Marianne Birch, leave her role at the board. Finsia also decided to reduce the number of board directors to a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 9. The organisation recently launched a digital platform to expand the skills and networks of finance ...

Independence on super boards should be skills based

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... alone is sufficient for good decision making." The company's research says there is a global trend towards prescription of minimum qualifications for directors. This is based around an analysis of the extent to which pension funds require structural ...

Emerging markets equity fund launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... launch of its first Australian-domiciled unit trust - the Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity Fund. The fund, with a minimum initial investment of $25,000, will be managed according to the firm's emerging markets equity strategy, which has a 16-year ...

FIIG launches Asciano direct bond

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Fixed Income Investment Group (FIIG) has launched its new Asciano Finance direct bond to wholesale investors with minimum investment amounts of $10,000. In a company statement it said "the bond is one of the highest yielding Australian investment grade ...

Mandatory qualifications will lead to adviser exodus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Enforcing minimum qualifications for financial advisers will lead to many leaving the industry, according to Connect Financial Services Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan. Speaking to Financial Standard, Tynan pointed to the results of introducing minimum ...

India multi asset fund to list on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... plans to list on the ASX as a listed investment company (LIC). The fund is looking to raise up to $100 million with a minimum subscription of $35 million and has Morgans as its lead manager. The proposed LIC will allow Australian investors access to ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
With minimum education standards surely now set to rise in the financial planning industry, the Financial Standard team has asked experts to outline what the new rules might look like and the possible routes advisers can take. What qualities will the ...

Treasury proposes higher regulatory levies for super funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... financial services and credit licensees, professional registrants and other licensees meet their key obligations, including minimum standards of compliance, supervision and conduct," said ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell. "In approving applications, ASIC ...

Liquidnet to launch first fixed income dark pool

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... that." Baldwin explained that prior to the global financial crisis, investment banks were "bastions of liquidity." But new minimum capital requirements have limited investment managers' and dealers' access to liquidity. "This is the big thing that has ...