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YouTube, you beauty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
YouTube used to be the domain of teenagers and the odd adult videotaping quirky and fun stuff, but today super funds can use it for more lofty goals - and it won't cost their members a cent. Tim Martin, director at 2 Sticks Digital Marketing, said that ...

Super policies shortchange women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Women are severely disadvantaged by existing government rules on super, with new research that shows two in five women accumulate less than a year's worth of super come retirement. A survey of more than 800 Australian women, aged between 50 to 80 years ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
From managing a modest $25 million in emerging markets in the mid-90s to $5.5 billion today, global fund manager Pinebridge Investments is benefiting from the growing number of investors that use EM debt as a portfolio diversifier. Rajeev Mittal, head ...

BTIM sales head joins UBS GAM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Bryce Doherty has left his role as head of wholesale sales at BT Investment Management to take up a similar position at UBS Global Asset Management. Doherty starts his role at UBS in mid-May and will be reporting to Ben Heap, head of UBS GAM in Australia. ...

A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
From an $18 billion asset consultancy in 2000 to the $100 billion behemoth today, Frontier Investment Consulting is all grown up - and it is finding new ways to deliver more value to its clients. This week Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

T. Rowe Price to expand Aus equities team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
The local arm of global fund manager T. Rowe Price is on a hiring spree, with plans to recruit three Australian equities analysts ahead of its launch of a domestic equities product later this year. T. Rowe Price today appointed Viral Patel, formerly ...

PIS appoints head of risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has appointed Mark Stubbings in the newly-created role, Head of Risk. In the new role, Stubbings will be responsible for risk advice across the group, the strategic direction of risk product development and managing ...

Super assets reach $1.32tr

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Total superannuation assets grew by 7.7 per cent last year to reach $1.32 trillion, with self-managed super funds accounting for the largest slice of the pie, APRA figures show. Prudential regulator APRA today released its quarterly superannuation performance ...

FOFA briefing fails to shed light on adviser concerns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
A financial adviser who attended the FOFA information session in Brisbane yesterday walked away with more questions than answers on how the public can benefit from the proposed reforms. Tim Ross, a financial adviser from Brisbane-based Ross Financial ...

Let the games begin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Financial services regulator ASIC this morning released its timetable for the introduction of market competition, which will allow Chi-X Australia to compete head to head with the ASX, and said the new market integrity rules (MIRs) should be in place ...