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Fin Wisdom shuffles team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
Financial Wisdom Premium's Victorian and Tasmanian regional manager, Tim Van Leeuwen, has become national operations manager, after previous head Matthew Brown took on additional responsibilities at Colonial First State. Van Leeuwen has been in the ...

VFMC infrastructure fund takes flight

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has joined the move by superannuation funds to direct infrastructure investment by acquiring a 19.6 per cent stake in Birmingham International Airport. The A$1 billion purchase, in partnership with the Ontario ...

QIC appoints new beta manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
QIC has appointed Bill Prendergast to the new position of Global Fixed Interest Beta Manager. Prendergast will manage QIC's global fixed income beta portfolios, including an inflation-linked bond mandate for QSuper. Prior to joining QIC, Bill spent ...

Super fund inflows reach record highs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
Australians pumped record sums into their superannuation funds over the June quarter, with $72 billion in total inflows marking the largest quarterly increase in history, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA ...

A third of over 55s will never retire: Citibank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
Nearly a third of Australian workers over 55 years old have no plans to retire, and 14 per cent intend to work well past 70, according to Citibank's latest Retirement Index. However, many of those working into retirement will not do it for the money ...

Merger to create $10bn property fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
Centro's proposed merger between their Shopping America Trust and Retail Trust is set to create Australia's ninth largest property fund, with assets worth $10.1 billion. Subject to a shareholder vote, the merger will give the stagnant American Trust ...

Fidelity lures Doherty from Perpetual

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
Fidelity Investments has announced Perpetual's wealth management group executive Gerard Doherty will join as managing director from January 2008. Doherty leaves after nearly 15 years at Perpetual. He was headhunted by Fidelity after the resignation ...

Mariner taps into private equity

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Mariner Financial has launched a bid to purchase TV production company Beyond International, which, if successful, will form a seed asset of a new private equity fund to be launched next year. The fund, to be housed under a new brand, Mariner Capital ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
The recent surge in superannuation inflows could push funds into direct infrastructure investment, according to Gabriel Szondy, managing director of the Centre for Investor Education. With contributions last financial year up between 23 and 35 per cent ...

IOOF gets direct

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
IOOF will offer direct share investment through its platforms as of next year, according to head of strategy and product, Nick Everingham. He said the move came in response to adviser demand, and IOOF would be putting out a tender in coming weeks to ...