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BGI and BlackRock mandates under review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Westscheme is intensely scrutinising the fates of the mandates within its $630 million Aussie equities portfolio, which is currently divided between Barclays Global Investors ($380 million) and BlackRock ($250 million), after the two firms announced ...

GESB seeks more unlisted exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
West Australian-based Government Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) is considering increasing its current asset allocation of 5 per cent into unlisted assets after it was hard hit by the downfall of equities markets. GESB, which had $8.4 billion in ...

Westscheme spends cash

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
The $2.4 billion industry fund Westscheme is bucking the trend of super funds going overweight in cash and is rebalancing its portfolio weekly across all asset classes. According to Howard Rosario, chief executive of the West Australian-based fund ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from Wall Street overnight, with key indices mixed while oil and precious metals fell. At 0832 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was seven points higher at 3,467. In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia. The world's largest ...

ING head of corp affairs and comms exits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
ING's head of corporate affairs and communication Patrick Southam has left the company following a business restructure. In October, ING created two new business units: the corporate strategy and marketing and the retirement investments solutions. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today after Wall Street advanced as voting proceeded in the United States in hope the next president will act on the financial crisis. At 0749 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract ...

Snowball taps mining rich towns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Snowball financial planning subsidiary, Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions and tap into the latter firm's cashed up mining and construction members. Big Sky Financial ...

GESB announces key hires

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
West Australian super fund GESB hired Fabian Ross as head of wealth management and Martin Hedley as head of strategy. Prior to joining the super fund, Ross spent 18 years at the Commonwealth Bank managing the financial planning division before joining ...