August 2, 2015

Tom Garcia by Greg Bright In a surprise supplementary submission to the Government over its proposal for compulsory independent trustee directors on big super fund boards, AIST last Friday launched a stinging attack on the proposal and APRA’s involvement. AIST

Andrea Slattery  SMSFs are wrestling with the same dilemma that big super funds are wrestling with: what to do with their rising pile of cash? More of it, according to the annual survey of the SMSF Association, is going into

Drew Wilson Funds manager servicing company Fundhost Ltd has recruited Drew Wilson back to the firm as joint chief executive, alongside founder Anne Ridgway. He had previously spent about three years with Fundhost as a business development manager. Wilson, an

Anne-Maree O’Connor A new corporate governance alliance between New Zealand’s largest institutional investors was launched last week with 16 member organisations, representing about 15 per cent of the NZ share market. The Corporate Governance Forum (CGF) is being chaired by

Simon Cox   “Our scenario is ambitious but I don’t think it’s crazy,” says Simon Cox, the investment strategist for BNY Mellon Investment Management in Asia Pacific. He made an interesting case for global optimism, last week, in a series of

Rupal Bhansali  Just as all good things must come to an end, so, all bad things must too. But the trick to contrarian investing, according to a leading proponent on the global stage, Rupal Bhansali, is not to try to

Mark Warminger New Zealand’s financial regulator has launched civil proceedings against Milford Asset Management (MAM) portfolio manager, Mark Warminger, on alleged market manipulation charges. In a statement issued last week, the Financial Markets Authority said it would be seeking “pecuniary