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Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Advisers are severely lacking in their knowledge of financial history - and if this trend remains, their lack of wisdom will only contribute to future financial crisis, said a global expert. Alan McFarlane, chief executive of Edinburgh-based Walter ...

Video me up, Scottie

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
It is not quite as revolutionary as teleporting but advances in video conferencing has now made it possible for fund managers to hold life-like video meetings, a major leap from the days of delayed broadcast, blurry video images and dropped-out calls. ...

SPAA awards industry's best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) recognised the best and brightest professionals in the sector with Jenny Power and Joanne Heighway winning the Chairman's Award and CEO Scholarship respectively. At the SPAA ...

Mercer expands property and Aust eq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Mercer has announced three new appointments to their Australian equities and real research departments. Clare Armstrong has been appointed to the role of senior Australian equities researcher, following 10 years at Goldman Sachs JB Were as head of managed ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
Scottish fund manager Martin Currie couldn't have picked the worst time to set up an Australian base but that hasn't stopped them from winning $500 million in new mandates thanks to the track record of their global alpha strategy. In the middle of the ...

MLC revamps global share strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
MLC has rejigged the firm's global share strategy by replacing Bernstein Value Equities, Alliance Growth Equities and Fortis Investments investment mandates with four new fund managers. Mondrian Investment Partners, Harding Loevner, Sands Capital Management ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The prices of local shares, property and commodities will fall further in the coming months before the government's stimulus package kicks in and takes the market out of the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Standard & Poor's has assigned a 'three star' rating to the BT Global Macro fund. The BT Global Macro fund uses a single manager multi strategy approach to portfolio construction. According to Standard & Poor's, the BT fund doesn't take large intra ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is likely to fall after US equities slumped more than three per cent on renewed concerns that problems in the banking industry aren't over. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures ...