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PIR sold to Aegis

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Specialist research house Property Investment Research has been bought by Aegis Equities Research. According to an email that was circulated among PIR clients, Aegis plans to continue running PIR as a standalone business. However, there are "a number ...

Acacia separates from Linear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... is looking to hire more while maintaining its boutique operation. "We'd also like to bring on a few more advisers but the plan is never to become the next AFS or AXA, we still want to be a boutique dealer group," she said. Acacia Wealth's chief executive ...

Van Eyk enhances risk ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Financial planning research firm, van Eyk has implemented a new risk ratings process to make the rating easier to understand and monitor. According to a statement, the risk ratings will be the same as that used by van Eyk to produce existing fund ratings ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
'Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less US$165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?' US President ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... Hall, started an investor presentation early this month with an apology for the group's "terrible performance" and set out a plan on how to recover last year's losses. "To start with, I'd like to apologise to everyone in this room for our terrible performance ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... retirement benefits may decrease diversification and add risk to the plans," noted a statement by CalPERS. The public pension plan group also calls for the establishment of an independent entity that can monitor the world markets for the potential for ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Financial planners should consider reversing the traditional approach to core-satellite investment strategy and adopt an "active" core and "passive" satellite tactic in bad markets, according to van Eyk. Stephen van Eyk, van Eyk Research managing director ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
The recently combined wealth unit of National Australia Bank is on the hunt for new boutique fund managers and top quality advisers following last week's merger announcement of MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest. Steve Tucker, the new head of the ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... next. The reason why the G-20 held a summit over the weekend. The reason why Japan announced a third government stimulus plan. The reason why the Bank of England (BoE) has formally implemented quantitative easing and is buying gilts directly. The reason ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...