Funds need to engage with members and their insurance providers in order to help overcome the under insurance problem in this country. A recent roundtable held by Investment & Tec ...

An $11 billion Australian funds manager is seeking expressions of interest from would-be suppliers of custody and investment administration services. (more…) The long-time general manager of ...

The continued demand for after-tax returns and reporting presents a business opportunity for custodians, according to chief executive of QSuper, Rosemary Vilgan, who has just implemented QIC’s Omega ...

Advance Asset Management has terminated any new flows to the Boston Company, one of four managers underlying the $1.2 billion Advance International Shares Multi-Blend Fund, following the loss of six ...

Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has increased its allocation to emerging market equities from 3 to 6 percent, reducing some of its weighting in Australian equities. The $28 billion ...

The outlook for hedge fund-of-funds in Australia has brightened a little, with an industry fund that redeemed all of its investments in 2008 continuing to rebuild its exposure, with Aurum Funds ...

The $28 billion AustralianSuper will hold all inflows in cash until “;the market picture becomes clearer”;, chief executive Ian Silk told a gathering of participating employers last week. (more…) ...

The master custody contract for the giant ARIA public sector scheme has gone out to tender, at a time when BNP Paribas Securities Services has won a new funds manager client and perhaps two fiduciary ...

The Chinese like their records, and heaven knows they are good at counting. With a population of 1.3 billion, they can usually expect quite a few world records in various endeavours. In economic terms ...

The Kinghorn family-controlled Sigma Alpha International has split up responsibility for research and advisory in the asset consultancy it purchased, CPG, with Brett Westbrook taking on a new role as ...

The success of the core–satellite approach in multimanager investing has been debunked by new research from domestic boutique Ankura Capital. (more…) For the first time in five years, a WA ...

Australia’s group insurance market is bounding along like the global recession never happened, with record high premiums in force, two funds introducing jawdropping autoacceptance levels during 2010, ...