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Vanguard broadens Asia-Pacific reach

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
Vanguard Australia has restructured its senior management team to focus on the growth opportunities in the wider Asia-Pacific region, not just Australia. Local managing director Jeremy Duffield has been appointed managing director of Vanguard Asia-Pacific ...

Tyndall/Suncorp to merge fixed interest teams

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
Tyndall/Suncorp will merge their two separate fixed income teams next quarter and increase staff numbers at their global macro team over the next year as part of a broader growth strategy, according to managing director Brett Himbury. Himbury said the ...

ASFA launches three-part super plan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... definitions of investment options." Vamos also said super funds needed to provide single-issue advice. "Single issue advice must focus on any one of the key decisions that are made by fund members: deciding what type of fund to join; investment options ...

Polaris sets PACE

... a specialist software testing lab can increase productivity by at least 20 to 30 per cent. "The PACE lab has three clear focus areas: enable high performance, reduce release time and minimise post implementation pain areas", said Jain. Polaris Software ...

Macq heads deeper into Asia

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... Macquarie Pastoral Fund teams, and will market those products to both local and overseas investors. Rady said the division would focus on Asia as its key growth market, putting four more staff into their 700-strong Hong Kong office in the first quarter ...

What happened to baby platforms?

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The decline in popularity of baby or cut down wraps could be due to the mixed feelings among product managers about their relevance to today's investors. Alan Kenny, general manager of product and investment services at Colonial First State said FirstChoice ...

No super for many small businesses

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Four in ten small- to medium-size business owners have no source of superannuation other than their business assets, and 85 per cent of those have no exit plan, according to a new survey from RSM Bird Cameron (RSMBC). The survey, titled 'Think Big - ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Standard and Poor's has launched three new Shariah law-compliant indices, targeting infrastructure, healthcare and large-midcap stocks. The three indices are the S&P Global Infrastructure Shariah, S&P Global Healthcare Shariah, and S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap ...

Magellan Global is best-of-breed

... unquestionable, whether they can manage a portfolio is the unknown," he added, although he stressed that Magellan's risk management focus means the fund will deliver on its objectives. Michelle Baltazar

Syncsoft reboots with Microsoft

... deployment and is fully instrumented. "All of this is a huge leap forward for business developers because they will be able to focus solely on delivering customer solutions," said Page. Co-founder and chief system designer Brett Christie said, "It was ...