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Super marketing with grunt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
A YouTube ad, an email blast and an annual report that morphs with the member's age were among the winning entries at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Sydney last night. This year's awards, which recognises the most innovative or effective ...

Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
The week of central watching finished with the Reserve Bank of Australia, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England opting to hold monetary policy steady this month. Fixed income markets rallied overnight following unchanged ...

Sub-prime divorce binge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The sub-prime induced credit crunch blowing a hole in the wallets of well-heeled London couples is fuelling a spike in divorces among stockbrokers, financial analysts and hedge fund managers. According to a report in the Economist magazine, City couples ...

Third Link signs key fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
More than 15 'big brand' and boutique managers including BlackRock, Colonial First State and Perennial will form the first set of underlying fund managers to the Third Link Growth fund, a fund-of-fund designed to donate $1.5 million each year to charity. ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight 15 July "Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water." This was the movie JAWS 2's tagline back in 1978 and it aptly applies to the global financial markets current predicament. It may not have been a complete ...

Schroders launches geared global fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
Schroders Investment Management has launched the Geared Global Active Value fund, which gives retail investors access to a geared version of the firm's successful global equity fund. The Schroders Geared Global Active Value uses external lenders to ...

Magnitude appoints chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
Former Westpac Financial Planning NSW head of advice, Sean Allen has been appointed chief executive of BT Financial Group's financial advice business, Magnitude Financial Planning. Allen previously held a number of senior roles at HSBC, Commonwealth ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
The amount of alternative assets managed by 99 of the world's largest investment managers on behalf of pension funds jumped 40 per cent to $864 billion last year, according to Watson Wyatt and Global Investor magazine. The Global Alternatives 99 research ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

The US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) swooped down Wall Street after charging more than 400 individuals for mortgage-related fraud and booked two ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund managers with conspiracy and securities fraud. ...

Planner buying spree tops $17bn

The latest Rainmaker Research reveals more than $17 billion of funds under advice (FUA) has changed ownership in the last six months, resulting in a major reshuffle of the country's top 10 financial planning groups. The largest deal to date was AXA's ...