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FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Custodians are a vital organ for super funds and asset managers. Darren Snyder explores the trillion-dollar industry.

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
An obsession with stability is moving investors away from all kinds of opportunities; from healthcare and IT mega caps to tobacco, fracking or coal, according to Ariel Investments.

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The China Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will give Australian financial services companies a competitive edge that their peers in the United States or Japan don't have.

TCorp chief executive resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) chief executive Steven Knight has stepped down from his role weeks after it amalgamated its funds management activities with State Super.

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
Investors will "get less and enjoy it worse" in the years ahead as a result of poor earnings growth, low activity levels and little economic progress, fund managers have warned.

AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
AustralianSuper has already hired four people to its internal global equities team and is on track to manage over $10 billion in international stocks in-house.

PM Capital global fund returns $50.3m

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
ASX-listed investment company PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund has reported a profit after tax of $50.3 million in its first full financial year result.

AMP Capital to invest in Garden City Shopping Centre

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
AMP Capital has lodged a development application with the City of Melville for the $750 million redevelopment and expansion of Perth's Garden City Shopping Centre.

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Australia and its resources sector are suffering from the slowdown in global growth, but things wouldn't look better if the world's four largest economies started to thrive again, BNY Mellon managing director for Asia Pacific Simon Cox said.

Climate change to shrink investment by $5.7trn

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
The effects of climate change will result in asset managers losing $5.7 trillion, a figure equivalent to Japan's entire GDP, according a study by The Economist Intelligence Unit.