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AdviserEdge Melbourne kicks off on 14 July

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... they do everyday," Baz Gardner, Principal and Founder of The Social Adviser said. Day 1 will equip you with the building blocks you need to develop your social strategy, day 2 will focus on the key tools every adviser needs to master (such as email ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... stocks to be traded blindly without buyers and sellers knowing who's who. This allows institutions to buy or sell large blocks of securities without revealing their hand to competitors and helps avoid high-frequency traders interposing on the deal. The ...

NZ Super sells forestry assets to Chinese state owned company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has sold a portfolio of 11 forestry blocks in New Zealand's North Island to a Chinese state owned logging group. NZSF general manager of investments, Matt Whineray said selling the forest blocks would enable ...

Anxiety over 'all-things super' takes toll on MySuper uptake

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... manager Tom Garcia said back at the start of the year that he anticipated most funds would look to get out of starting blocks as early as possible due to "a very competitive environment." Dunnin thinks that the competitiveness of the market could be ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... good time for advisers to revisit their portfolio allocations, to make sure retail clients were not "stuck in the starting blocks."

SSgA launches two fixed income ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... access," said Amanda Skelly, head of SPDR ETFs at SSgA. "Like the entire family of SPDR ETFs they also provide the building blocks investors can use to diversify their portfolios in a low-cost, easily tradable and transparent manner," she added. Skelly ...

CYRE Trilogy, APFG still fighting

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... Fund's control (APGF). The PFA trust, formerly run by Mirvac Group, owns Civic Tower in Goulburn Street in Sydney and office blocks in St Leonards in Sydney and on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. Under Corporations law, APFG is obliged to surrender the register ...

AEI shareholders fight off board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... could not survive." The shareholder group calling for the board spill was not, however, able to obtain support from voting blocks that included institutional shareholders. "They didn't get that many votes outside their own block, so shareholders pretty ...

Perpetual argues for insto outcome focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... selected managers. "I think the challenge of the industry is current structures are still asset class based and building blocks are on asset class structures, yet while balanced funds were suited to certain market conditions [a stable economic backdrop] ...

Suncorp keeps it simple

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... around ability to efficiently service customers." The new program builds on the foundations laid by the Group's Building Blocks initiative, which is on track to deliver $235 m of annualised savings by June 2013. "Building Blocks savings have been achieved ...