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S&P withdraws six ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... Standard & Poor's has withdrawn the ratings on a MIR fund, a Legg Mason fund and four AMP Capital Investors funds at the request of fund managers. The ratings firm withdrew the 'four stars' rating on the MIR Australian Equities Fund Class A, an Australian ...

AMP service speeds up underwriting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... the doctor and requesting them to return relevant information. Obtaining medical information from doctors, via a written request, currently takes an average of three weeks. "We appreciate that filling out endless medical questionnaires is time-consuming ...

S&P withdraws Ashton-Paulson rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... Event-Driven Fund and Ashton-Paulson Credit Opportunities Fund. However, these ratings were withdrawn a week later at the request of the fund's trustee, Ashton Advisers (Australia). Nick Raphaely, executive director at Ashton Advisors (Australia), said ...

Push for redemption freeze lifts: PASL

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... on its fiduciary duties and on acting in the best interests of its members. For this reason, we submitted a redemption request very soon after the freeze was implemented, thereby placing a 'stake in the ground' for the fund," he said. The court eventually ...

Austock closes high yield fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Austock Asset Management has been forced to close the High Yield fund after a flurry of redemption requests from investors. The firm told Standard & Poor's it was closing the fund after a recent rise in redemption requests had increased the fund's exposure ...

Timbercorp growers favour consortium

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Timbercorp growers are welcoming talks with a recently formed consortium - TCGrowers - which is looking to buy the embattled agricultural group's forestry assets. According to an update yesterday on the TCGrowers website, the group had received very ...

Hedge funds on a refund policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Hedge fund investors are developing new fee structures around long-term performance - putting in place a "refund" clause if the hedge manager underperforms. The latest State Street Vision report on the sector found hedge fund investors are developing ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Super funds could do more than rely on their custodians to manage their investment data, with one tech firm highlighting the benefits of taking the job in-house, ahead of APRA's more extensive data collection later this year. Historically, super funds ...

When ASIC knocks, answer immediately

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
You've been served. Recent reports about corporate watchdog ASIC paying a personal visit to two accountants (mistakenly reported in the media as financial planners) to hand them notices illustrate the far-reaching powers of the regulator, says an industry ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...