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More million dollar members for MDRT

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) has welcomed a number of new members to its ranks as more financial planners are finding themselves successfully qualifying for membership. New members include Max Moodley, Graham Craig, Sam Capra, Mark Osborne, Marc ...

New year, new stocks: Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Suncorp Investment Management has dramatically changed the investment line up within its Investment Management Word Equities Trust when it axed 50 per cent of the stocks in the portfolio and reconfigured fund manager allocation. The trust has increased ...

Australian Unity focuses on wellbeing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Physical wellbeing is just as important as financial wellbeing so for healthcare services provider and fund manager Australian Unity, why not look after both? It's been a stomach-churning time for many companies, Australian Unity not least one of them. ...

MIR wins back its five star ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
S&P has reinstated the five star ratings of four of MIR's equities funds which were placed on hold in May as a result of organisational changes. S&P fund analyst, Ken Ostergaard, said that after meeting MIR management as well as recently departed head ...

Outflows to force Challenger fund re-opening

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2006
Morningstar research has issued an updated report on the "tough times" being faced by Challenger small and micro cap funds of late, which they say has resulted in $100 million in institutional fund outflows. Morningstar's head of research, Justin Walsh ...

Challenger scores well thanks to QIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
Challenger has scored three four star S&P ratings and one three star S&P rating for its multi-manager suite, thanks to Queensland Investment Corporation's (QIC) well regarded investment process. The three funds to receive S&P's four star ranking were ...

Credit Suisse CEO departs

Credit Suisse Asset Management's chief executive officer Andrew McKinnon is calling it a day after more than a decade at the helm. McKinnon, who has transformed the group's asset management business from a $1.9 billion operation back in 1995 to the ...

Daily Economic Roundup

Domestic economy - The latest National Australia Bank (NAB) business survey showed that business confidence dropped to 1 in the third quarter - the lowest since the first quarter of 2001 - from 2.8 in the previous three-month period. The fall in confidence ...

Pengana's Emerging Companies Fund gets three stars

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has awarded the Pengana Emerging Companies Fund an Assirt rating of three stars and has measured the manager's capability in the Australian small companies sector as 'competent'. The fund was established at the end of 2004. It ...

Standard & Poor's rates CSAM and Vanguard offerings

Standard & Poor's has assigned an ASSIRT 'strong' fund rating on Vanguard's Australian shares high yield fund an ASSIRT 'competent' rating to Credit Suisse Asset Management's (CSAM's) global alternative strategies funds. In July last year Vanguard made ...