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Zurich expands sales team

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Zurich Investments has made six new sales appointments in key states. "Zurich's focus and support of advisers and their clients is firmly embedded in our strategy and we want to ensure we continue to deliver high quality service as we grow the business," ...

Core and satellite approach not bulletproof: study

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... funds were often "jumping at the wrong shadow" by narrowing down their manager base, because when they do so, they usually focus on more aggressive managers. "It's easy to be seduced by extreme outcomes of past performance," he concluded.

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... resources, while others run on leaner operations, he pointed out. Ultimately, Bolger said the key to reliable research is a focus on delivering, managing and understanding the associated investments risks, not just returns. He also pointed out that one ...

Austock improves, but remains in the red

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... result in further increases to FUM in 2011 The company said that it plans to increase the number of advisers and geographic focus of its private client and financial planning business, specifically targeting Australian Asian communities through the growth ...

Anglican Diocese signs SRI deal with Mercer

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney has appointed Mercer to an implemented consulting mandate focused on socially responsible investing. The arrangement involves Mercer tailoring a new multi-manager fund focused on SRI - a key criteria for the diocese. The ...

FSP appoints recruitment manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... having worked some 10 years within our sales and development team," said Geoff Rimmer, FSP chief executive. Crane's role will focus on recruiting new firms to FSP and help existing firms with recruitment and acquisition. Financial Services Partners is ...

Yuan revaluation drives hedge fund flows

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... broadly across a number of strategies, and in both emerging and developed Asian economies. Event Driven strategies (which focus on distressed, shareholder activist, merger Arbitrage and other special situations) received the majority of new investor ...

Focus on member retirement outcomes

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
Super funds should focus on 'real' member retirement outcomes, not relative returns, annual account balances and peer performance, said Troy Rieck, QIC head of capital markets. Speaking at the 16th annual Rainmaker Marketing symposium late last week ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... zero lower bound, the Federal Reserve retains a number of tools and strategies for providing additional stimulus. I will focus here on three that have been part of recent staff analyses and discussion at FOMC meetings: (1) conducting additional purchases ...

Investors call planners to charge performance-based fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... points come through whether it's an asset-based fee, fee for service or commission model," he said. Johnston said the renewed focus on low-cost investing has accelerated demand for exchange traded funds (ETFs), direct shares and separately managed accounts ...