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CitiStreet expands team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
Administration services provider CitiStreet has announced new appointments in marketing, tax and member services in its Sydney and Brisbane offices. Alex Kleiman has been appointed head of marketing and strategy bringing with him a strong background ...

Funds SA puts faith in property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
Funds SA has increased its non-core unlisted mandate with Russell Investment Group's real estate division to $112 million. Funds SA chief executive, Richard Smith, said the increase reflected their confidence in the global property market and Russell's ...

Dazza is a dud: FPA survey

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... 'good to excellent'," she said. Following the results, the FPA implemented a number of new initiatives, including a greater focus on member communication, lobbying, the establishment of a new FICS committee and a member segmentation strategy. There will ...

Challenger teams up with Colony

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Challenger Financial Services has signed a partnership agreement with US-based real estate funds specialist Colony Capital in a deal that involves $64 million in Challenger share options. As part of the partnership, Colony bought an option of over 57.1 ...

Centric buys PKF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... pipeline of quality groups interested in joining us," Pillemer said. For the time being, though, he said the company would focus its energies on the upcoming listing.

Labor supports financial services export push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
The Shadow Minister for Trade and Regional Development, Simon Crean, has announced the Labor party's support for the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) May discussion paper on exporting Australia's financial services. Speaking at an ...

Channel 3: Highlights from the 2007 ASFA Budget Luncheon

Economist and company director Don Stammer talks about the China supercycle, the rising cost of beer and what he thinks of Australia's retirement policies. In May this year, Stammer gave an entertaining and insightful speech at the ASFA Budget Luncheon ...

Australian Ethical Investments go global

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... launched its first internationally focused trust. The ethical fund manager already has an equities trust but its international focus is less than half of its overall investment strategy. Executive director of Australian Ethical Investment James said ...

Active fund tax burden costs 4pc of returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... Bowerman. In separate news, QIC awarded Vanguard a whopping $3 billion in passive mandates partly because of the index fund's focus on after-tax returns.

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

... funds and is QIC's largest client. Previously, QIC did not invest in index funds. The mandates are also unusual because the focus is on the after-tax returns, which QIC claims is the first of their kind in the country. The group also reconfigured QSuper's ...