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BT appoints former MLIM exec as head of credit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
... head of credit for BT Investment Management. John Sorrell will take on the key role with a focus on leading BT's credit research and credit management for BT's existing range of fixed interest, credit and cash products. He is also charged with strengthening ...

UniSuper draws four investment specialists

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... skillfully take advantage of investment opportunities," he said. Dennis Sams, former asset consultant and director of research and strategy at Russell Investment Group, will take on the role of manager, public markets and will oversee portfolio design ...

Financial Standard welcomes chief economist

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... nearly two decades of experience in the finance sector, Peter Bell has joined Financial Standard as head of investment research and chief economist. With degrees in mathematics, statistics and economics, Bell's career has spanned an array of functions ...

ASIC issues disclosure guidelines for super trustees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... to base their decision to choose an investment strategy from the available strategies," ASIC's director of policy and research, Mark Adams. PS 184 also details some relief for trustees relating specifically to the amounts of information that is required ...

Design menus to encourage proper choices: MLC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... Abley, senior asset consultant, and Leon Tisdell, asset consultant, both with MLC Implemented Consulting, wrote in a research paper presented to the recent UNSW Superannuation Researchers Colloquium, that the way humans are designed to think about and ...

In dividends we trust: AQR

... when it comes to making money, companies that pay dividends rule. Cliff Asness, former Goldman, Sachs & Co quantitative research guru, is the founding and managing principal of AQR Capital Management, the group which replaced Putnam Investments as BT's ...

Borrowers in trouble after rate hike

... goods and services used to weigh inflation had been skewed by factors such as the price of petrol and bananas. Separate research by multi-manager firm ipac released last month showed that Australians, particularly women, are already feeling the pinch ...

Challenger re-invents distribution team

... the company's continued growth push. NSW state manager, Mark Burgess, will move to the newly created role of head of research relationships as well as national key account manager. His brief is to focus on managing key national dealer groups and research ...

Costs of multiple super too hard to address: max Super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
Confirming the worst, research by max Super has revealed that over one-third of Australians have multiple super accounts which could see them missing out on $60,000 in retirement. The recent max Super survey found that more than 38 per cent of Australians ...

PIMCO announces new vice president

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... Management. Dorrian will be responsible for overseeing new business and client management with platform providers, retail research houses dealers and financial planning groups. John Wilson, head of PIMCO's Australian office, said, "We recognise the rapid ...