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Select funds top Zenith review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Select Asset Management topped Zenith Diversified Sector Review rankings with two funds rated 'highly recommended'. The firm's Select Defensive Portfolio and Select Growth Portfolio rank in the top three in a review that featured 15 other funds. The ...

Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
Grove Financial Services and Counterpoint have joined forces to create a new asset consulting firm with a combined $11 billion of assets under advice. Simon Ibbetson, formerly at S&P and now the managing director at Grove said that the merger makes ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
More than 20 per cent of working Australians have reduced their super contributions, changed their investment options or switched to a new super fund in the last three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the ...

AustSuper seeks equities and FI experts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
The $28 billion industry fund Australian Super is on the hunt for two investment specialists with expertise in fixed interest and listed equities. Australian Super is looking to appoint an investment manager - fixed interest to drive the fund's fixed ...

Northward wins Golden Calf

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
Northward Capital has been awarded The Citi Golden Calf Award for the best emerging fund manager. The firm was set up by former Insurance Australia Group (IAG) co-heads of equities, Darren Thompson and Simon Rutherfurd in November last year. The Northward ...

Aviva offers pensioner relief after redemption freeze

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Aviva Australia has taken the extraordinary step to provide self-funded retirees and self managed super fund (SMSF) members on its Navigator platform their 'full' pension payments until the end of this year, when those payments would have been significantly ...

FIIG opens term deposit site

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Investors can make better informed decisions about their cash investments after FIIG Securities opened a term deposit comparison website. Termdeposit.com.au can find the best term deposit rate from more than 40 providers, allowing people to invest directly ...

Ratings first, platforms second: CAAM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management Australia is focusing its immediate attention on garnering ratings from the top rating firms in Australia, rather than pouring resources into distributing its products via platforms. Three months ago, Richard Borysiewicz ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) signatories are using their collective $6 trillion investment might to persuade around 9,000 companies to sign a set of corporate social responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote ...

Essex County seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Aussie fund managers with a global equities expertise may apply for a slice of the $7.7 billion Essex County Council Pension Fund's $763 million global equities mandate. According to a public tender statement, the pension fund is looking to appoint ...