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APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The $38.8 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has pumped $521 million and $261 million into two infrastructure funds by Goldman Sachs and Alinda Capital Partners. The APFC board poured the investments into the new Goldman Sachs Institutional ...

Westscheme shakes up portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The $2.92 billion Westscheme has rejigged its cash, Australian equities and emerging markets exposures among others after a review of its investment strategy. For the first time since March 2006, the Westscheme Trustee Board altered the strategic asset ...

IUS hires ex-Tower manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
Australian insurance provider, International Underwriting Services (IUS) has appointed Stuart Rowe as manager - planning and business development. Rowe was recruited from Tower Australia where he held the role of manager, corporate markets. Rowe has ...

Islamic funds zone in on Malaysia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
Australian investors monitoring the boom of Islamic funds management should look across the seas to Malaysia, which recently approved three international financial firms to set up shop in the country. The Securities Commission (SC) has approved the ...

Australians lead FM pack

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
Australians have emerged the victors of the wealth management race despite a global economic slowdown, new research shows. According to the AFG Global Funds Management Index, Australians amassed an average $70,385 per person in managed funds - emerging ...

Vivid signs on Financial Simplicity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Vivid Financial has implemented Financial Simplicity's Enterprise Edition product to improve the trade efficiencies of their managed accounts portfolios. According to Jon Reilly, trading and compliance manager of Vivid Financial, the new software will ...

UBS faces multi-billion lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
UBS Securities and UBS Financial Services in the US are embroiled in a multi-billion dollar fraud lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's lawsuit charges UBS with falsely selling and marketing auction rate securities ...

McCullagh to depart Military Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
John McCullagh, chief executive of $3 billion Military Super, is retiring this year but has not ruled out continuing his involvement with Australia's wealth management industry. The Board of Military Super is on the hunt for a new chief executive to ...

Former Invesco duo harvest good returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
It has been over a year since Australian equities heavyweights Rohan Walsh and Luke Sinclair left Invesco for Karara Capital. The market timing may have been off but the pair still proved their mettle judging by their debut returns in their new home. ...

Pure commodities funds win ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Climbing commodity prices have pioneered the establishment of pure commodity funds and a debut Standard and Poor's rating for three new products. Ratings house Standard & Poor's Fund Services recently assigned four-star ratings to three new pure commodity ...