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Qantas Super switches to monthly MIC

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
The $6.6 billion Qantas Superannuation fund is replacing its quarterly member investment choice (MIC) switching options to monthly. According to the corporate superannuation fund's latest newsletter, the trustee has approved the change, which was officially ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has come a long way since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Global investment management giant GMO has added three senior investment professionals to its Sydney-based Australian Equities team. Geoff Wells, Mark Thompson and Bradley Grehan will bring a combined 40 years of experience to the GMO Australian Equities ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly is steering one of Australia's largest banking and wealth management groups to a more sustainable future when she signed the United National Global Compact (UNGC) CEO Water Mandate. The mandate is an international ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Logica has created a new software that helps prevent funds from being used by terrorists, reduces risk and provides cost-effective compliance for investment managers and banks. Tech company Logica recently launched HotScan Plus - an automated transaction ...

Pentafin beefs up IT team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Pentafin has appointed US expat Joe Vetto and ex-Challenger operations support manager Karen Chim to its IT team. Joe Vetto, the former co-founder and vice-president of product development for Seattle-based X6 Technologies which is now Minecode, has ...

Focus on value not fees: AFA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has put its foot down that advisers' commissions should not be abolished because the existing system promotes choice and value among clients. AFA national president Dennis Bateman stated that mandating a single ...

US pension fund to settle suit for $930m

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The largest public pension fund in the US fires a warning shot against companies with lousy corporate governance when it demanded a company it invests in to re-write its CG policy and pay a $930 million cheque for wrongful share trading. The $244 billion ...

BNY Mellon taps distressed debt

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
Struggling telecommunication companies, bankrupt banks, airports under duress - the sub-prime crisis has increased the number of distressed debt companies, providing more opportunities for the Mellon Recovery Fund. Launched in August 2006, the Mellon ...

See-through IMAs buffer market sting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
Dalton Nicol Reid clients are hunkering down for a year of negative returns - but the specialist portfolio manager said they were well-informed ahead of the financial year-end due to the transparency of individually managed accounts (IMAs). DNR, one ...