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Mercer appoints senior portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Mercer Global Investments has appointed a new senior portfolio strategist to its Australian investment team. Phil Graham joins Mercer after six years at Access Economics, most recently as head of manager selection on their market portfolio managers. ...

IXIS wins $450m CFS mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
IXIS Asset Management Australia has been awarded a $450 million global bond mandate from Colonial First State for its FirstChoice platform. IXIS Australia affiliate Loomis, Sayles & Company will manage the mandate and follows a Loomis Sayles revision ...

Over Fifty Group ends commercial mortgages

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
Over Fifty Group has announced it is ceasing its commercial mortgage lending business and related funds management activities. The closure of its mortgage lending unit follows the completion of a strategic business review, with the Over Fifty Group ...

AMP Capital Investors grows real estate team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a new assistant portfolio manager to its global real estate securities team. Tim Gibson leaves Morgan Stanley to join the AMP Capital Investors team in London. He will be responsible for researching listed European ...

D'Aloisio put forward as Lucy's replacement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has flagged his preference for who should fill the top job at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), proposing former Australian Stock Exchange head, Tony D'Aloisio, take over when current chairman Jeffrey ...

MacarthurCook profits off property offload

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
MacarthurCook has sold one of the North Sydney office spaces in its MacarthurCook Office Property Trust portfolio for a significant profit. MacarthurCook sold the 13 storey North Sydney property for $69.6 million, a 28 per cent increase on the 2005 ...

Tax determination improves income protection

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Under a recent tax determination, income protection offered through super funds can now be extended for two more years for ill health and injury. Tax determination 2007/3 (TD 2007/3) replaces TD98/27 and allows for the extension of insurance coverage ...

Court stops pair posing as bank

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has obtained court orders to prevent the unauthorised financial business 'The Federal State Bank of Australia' from calling itself or acting like a bank. The supposed "bank" was held up as an institution ...

BT to collect TFNs online

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
BT Financial Solutions is making it easier for customers to provide tax file numbers (TFN) in the lead up to the 1 July super changes by launching an online TFN updating tool. As part of the raft of changes to superannuation to come into effect 1 July ...

H3 Global Commodities Fund gets S&P tick

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has assigned the Cayman Islands domiciled H3 Global Commodities Fund a three-star rating. Lee Comper, S&P fund analyst, said the H3 Global Commodities Fund, with a $500,000 minimum investment, was suitable only for institutional ...