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Elana Rubin retires from AustralianSuper board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
AustralianSuper chair Elana Rubin announced her retirement from the fund's board, effective April 5. Heather Ridout will take over as chair when Rubin's term finishes. Ridout has been a director at AustralianSuper since 2007, is currently a director ...

Russell Investments director to head UniSuper

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
UniSuper has appointed Kevin O'Sullivan as its new chief executive officer. O'Sullivan has more that 30 years' experience in the superannuation and actuarial fields, both in Australia and internationally. For the last 22 years he has been with Russell ...

SelfWealth provides socially responsible portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
SelfWealth, an online service that allows investors to compare their portfolios against each other, has partnered with Infinitas Asset Management and will provide a socially responsible and a women-friendly portfolio to its community. SelfWealth users ...

Earnings growth key to equity returns

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
The Australian market has little exposure to genuine growth stories and is too much at the mercy of cyclical trends, says Hyperion Asset Management managing director Tim Samway, who believes that a focus on company fundamentals is the only way to go. ...

No end in sight for renminbi rally

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
The unbridled appreciation of Chinese currency will not be halted by uncertainties about the economy's short-term economic outlook, according to new research by AllianceBernstein. The investment manager says the strength of structural factors, rather ...

UK adviser reforms drive out 9,400 advisers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
The UK's Retail Distribution Review and its push to increase the professionalism of their adviser force has already lead to a 23% collapse in the number of financial advisers. The figures, based on analysis released by the UK Financial Services Authority ...

CFSGAM appoints CIO, infra analyst

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has appointed Paul Griffiths to the newly created role of chief investment officer of Fixed Interest and Credit, effective July 1. Griffiths will be based in London and his appointment, as well as ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
The high turnover of active managed funds generates tax inefficiencies that can drag portfolios by as much as 2%, according to global asset manager Parametric. Recent legislation requiring superannuation funds have an after-tax investment objective ...

CalPERS awards $500m multi-asset mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
One of the best-known pension funds in the US has awarded a significant mandate to Standard Life Investments' top-performing multi-asset fund. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing US$500 million with the Edinburgh-based ...

Equipsuper approved to offer MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
Equipsuper has become the 14th super fund to be gain MySuper authorisation. The preliminary marketing name for the product is Equipsuper MySuper, noting that only nine of the 14 MySuper products authorised so far have the product class name integrated ...