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Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... Exchange. The fund will use senior fixed interest managers Lance Pupelis and Nick Tribe's modeling and research and will focus on market responses to new information. Portfolio Partners has also appointed two analysts and an investment manager. John ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... armaments, tobacco, gambling, cruelty to animals, destruction of the environment and uranium mining. The fund's main investment focus will be renewable energy stocks, environmentally focused technology stocks, medical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical ...

Asian property under the microscope: AEW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... not get their arms around real estate. Real estate is totally different to equities investment." Singapore shifting its focus to high-value manufactures, its proximity to being able to feed off the China growth engine and its ability to support a modern ...

KNM appoints wealth head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
Brisbane based financial services provider, KNM Services has appointed Marty Carne to executive director of its wealth division, signalling the company's expansion into the wealth management sector. Carne has previously held executive positions at Wesfarmers ...

Pass the paracetamol

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... there is still a good chance of more interest rate headaches over Christmas. The Reserve Bank of Australia in its continued focus on inflation announced this morning an increase in the cash rate by 25 basis points to 6.75 per cent. In a press statement ...

MLC tailors critical illness underwriting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... underwriter and the business. This new structure will enable relationships between underwriters and advisers to be the major focus," Crowe said.

IIFA pledges global reporting standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
The International Investment Funds Association has vowed to support development of a better investment fund reporting system at its 21st annual meeting, which concluded in Sydney last Friday. The 76 delegates, representing 35 different national investment ...

Credit Suisse outsources to State Street

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... services such as trade matching, trade processing and broker liaison. "This new mandate with State Street will allow us to focus on our core competencies while leveraging State Street's global reach," Gailie Oliver, chief operating officer at Credit ...

Quant experts enter new continuum

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... chief executive Nick Basile and senior manager of investments Nelson Lam will sit on the Continuum board. The company will focus initially on Australian equities, with Core, High-Alpha and Long/Short funds. All funds will be 100 per cent quantitative ...

AFA makes room for Gen Xers

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... and run by members under the age of forty, to help grow young adviser numbers. The AFA National GenXt Adviser Council will focus on professional development activities and network development to ensure the next generation of financial advisers will be ...