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SELECT expands senior team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... experience as an institutional business development manager. Andrew Stewart, SELECT head of distribution, said Daly would focus on the distribution of SELECT's products and those of their investment partners. "The emphasis will be on products offered ...

CFS GAM chief to leave

... challenges and opportunities presented by this dynamic industry. As the bulk of this transformation is now complete, I want to focus on new businesses ventures," said Negus. Grahame Petersen, Commonwealth Bank's group executive in wealth management said ...

ASIC zones in on accountants pushing SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... Taskforce would prosecute accountants on the basis of whether clients have financially suffered as a result of the advice. "We focus on the compliance issues where clients financially suffer as a result of the advice that's been received," she said. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a positive lead from Wall Street. At 0637 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was up 70 points at 5215. Today, New Zealand retailer The Warehouse Group ...

MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

Good management pays, governance not yet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... three years the GLI scored 9.1 per cent per annum compared to the S&P/ASX 300 which scored 10.1 per cent per annum. If the focus is narrowed however to mean good management and the ability to mitigate current and emerging risk within their organisations ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Investors are increasingly dissatisfied with the products of their DIY investment brokers, new research by Wealth Focus shows. Figures from the new DIY Investor Report found that investors were "relatively unhappy" with their main DIY investment broker ...

PE must work on PR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
As more institutions invest in alternative assets such as private equity, the sector players have to re-think how they communicate their message under the more intense public spotlight. At a Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum panel discussion, private ...

GVI shifts retail weight to insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Homegrown fund manager Global Value Investors (GVI) flags plans to offer its flagship retail fund to institutional clients. Established in February 2005, the GVI is seeking to launch its flagship Global Industrial Share Fund to institutional clients. ...

Macquarie buys Allegiance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Macquarie Bank's Funds Management Group (MFMG) has deepened its roots in the US funds management market by scooping up California-based fixed income fund manager, Allegiance Investment Management. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed ...