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Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... some originators that worked with Macquarie were not told of the decision. Allstate Home Loans' managing director Tony Shield said he heard the news when he was rung by a journalist for a comment. Allstate is a small Queensland lender with a $600 million ...

CFDs to act as shield: CMC

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... stake in the financial planning industry and self directed self-managed super funds (SMSF) investors with the launch of its Shield Account product. According to Nic Blakemore, head of distribution at CMC Markets, financial planners and SMSF investors ...

UBS Aus equities will deliver: Shields

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
UBS has completed its Australian equities team restructure after appointing analysts Jeremy Bendiech and Shane Fitzgerald to the group. These appointments follow the departure of Paul Fiani and four senior members of the firm's Australian equities team ...

Schroders shielded from LPT burnout

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
The Australian arm of international asset manager, Schroders, managed to buffer a portion of the credit and stockmarket crisis' impact when it sold all listed properties from its equity, balanced, and high yield funds over a year ago. Many investors ...

Water fund washes onto BT wraps

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... despite the current market volatility because of its "defensive backbone". "In current market conditions the utilities help shield the fund, and are likely to be amongst the first stocks to bounce as market confidence returns," said Padley. Erwin Shoeters ...

CFS GAM appoints Australian Equities head

Colonial First State Global Asset Management has appointed a senior executive from Morgan Stanley, Marcus Fanning, to head the group's Australian Equities (Growth). Fanning replaces Simon Shields, the former head of Australian Equities (GDP Plus), who ...

Advisers urged to exit UBS Aussie fund

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's Fund Services has downgraded the UBS Australian Share Fund from four to two stars and recommended that advisers find an alternative manager for their "core" Australian-equities investment. While UBS is not the only fund ...

Week of resignations for UBS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Rounding out a week of personnel-propelled headlines for UBS Global Asset Management, another executive has tendered his resignation. Hot on the heels of head of Australian equities, Paul Fiani's departure, deputy portfolio manager, Shawn Burns, has ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

Colonial First State, one of the largest equities funds manager in the country, hopes to turn its misfortunes on the personnel front into an opportunity to hunt new talent and revamp its performance track record. The revolving door at CFS has kept turning ...

Govt moves on bankruptcy super shield

The Federal Government has abandoned its previously proposed line of attack towards bankrupt individuals who try to dodge their creditors by exploiting a super loophole, instead adopting a more common sense approach to the long-running problem. Late ...