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Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

Virgin Super climbs up the Rainmaker Data performance tables to rank 30th out of over 200 competing products, another proof that index investing delivers value-for-money to investors. Launched in July 2005, Virgin Super offers two products, one for ...

New year, new products, new chief

Securities lending and equity financing specialist Opes Prime has re-jigged its management team, appointed a new chief executive and signalled new product launches this year. Recently appointed non-executive chairman, Peter Gillooly, said the new management ...

Community CPS credit union launches Eastwoods FP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
Recently merged and expanded credit union Community CPS has launched its in-house financial planning service, Eastwoods, already operating with $300 million in funds under advice (FUA). Kevin Benger, chief executive office of Community CPS, said, "We ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has criticised the Federal Government's record on productivity citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase ...

Biotech bouncing back

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The Australian biotech sector finished 2006 in a healthy position with stronger valuations buoyed by the interest of overseas investors while 2007 looks set to continue the trend on the back of significant news flow and trial results for a range of ...

Macquarie Clean Tech Fund raises $120m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
Macquarie Funds Management Group has closed the first stage of its Clean Technology Fund after raising more than $120 million. The Macquarie Clean Technology Fund targets wholesale superannuation funds looking to invest in private equity fund of funds ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
The Australian stock market was strong at noon with the big miners and gains in Telstra driving the bourse upwards. The market was also buoyed by Fairfax Media's move to acquire Rural Press and create a $9 billion media group. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

MFS buys 40 per cent of Vantage

MFS Alternative Asset has acquired a 40 per cent stake in private equity management group Vantage Asset Management (VAM), its maiden investment in the alternative asset sector. The group has also bought $2.3 million worth of shares in Vantage Private ...

Prosperity Partners joins Consultum

WA-based advisory firm Prosperity Partners has joined forces with IOOF-backed Consultum Financial Advisers. "We were attracted to Consultum primarily because of the technical and business planning support they can offer us. The group is also small enough ...