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Aussie small caps outperform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Australian small-cap managers are blitzing league tables and outperforming most investment strategies during the global pandemic, Rainmaker research shows. Rainmaker's July Wholesale managed funds performance report reveals the best and worst fund ...

Interim insolvency protections extended

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... has increased from$5000 to $20,000; the time to pay or respond has increased from 21 days to six months. The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell welcomed the extension. "These necessary measures give otherwise viable ...

AMP does not treat advisers fairly: Poll

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... year. In July, a class action was filed against AMP by its own advisers over the reduction in BOLR values. The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has continued to urge AMP to mediate with its advisers. By January 2020, the ombudsman ...

Several promoted at Yarra Capital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
Yarra Capital has announced a number of in-house promotions within its Australian equities investment team. Michael Steele, previously deputy portfolio manager for the firm's Australian smaller companies equity capability, has been promoted to co-portfolio ...

Advisers file class action against AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... class actions are funded. It was then expected to be filed in February but was delayed again. It comes as the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman refers numerous BOLR-related cases for mediation on the back of more than 100 complaints ...

Ombudsman demands changes for small business insolvencies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell is calling for a number of measures to be put in place to protect small businesses from a 'tsunami' of insolvencies. In the latest Insolvency Practices Inquiry report ...

AMP advisers low priority for ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... to ensure for proper scrutiny of these matters for these hundreds of small businesses." O'Neil said that the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has received over 100 complaints from the financial advisers affiliated with AMP. Those ...

Artisan teams up with Melbourne multi-boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... experienced and proven investment team." Copia has boutique partners, all across equities: OC Funds Management (Australian small caps), Vertium Asset Management (Australian equity income), Chester Asset Management (high conviction Australian and Asian ...

Calls to investigate treatment of AMP advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... businesses for less than one tenth of what they were worth before these changes," she said. The Senator added that the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman has received over a hundred complaints from the financial advisers affiliated ...

Best Australian equities funds, with risk considered

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... (14.9%), Sharpe Ration (0.6), Sortino Ratio (0.6), Omega Ratio (1.8) and Information Ratio (1.7). Aberdeen Standard Australian Small Companies Fund had the least volatility (13.5% in standard deviation) while Ironbark Karara Australian Small Companies ...