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Instinet adds four to Sydney office

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Instinet has appointed three sales traders and an equities IT specialist to its Sydney office. Scot Burton was hired as a senior sales trader while Alex Lai and Dan Heavener were both appointed sales traders. Chris Vella, was appointed to the equities ...

Supercorp software adds 2,000 users

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
Supercorp Technology's self managed super fund (SMSF) administration software is being used to process more than 2,000 SMSFs just four months after the solution was launched. The firm's software, superMate, was launched in October last year as the next ...

Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
The $430 billion Norwegian Government Pension fund has selected European responsible investment house, GES Investment Services, to screen its fixed income and equities portfolios for tobacco and weapons criteria. The research mandate means GES will ...

Investors gain sector-based ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Institutional investors and financial planners will soon be able to access locally listed sector-based exchange traded funds (ETF) after Australian Index Investments (Aii) announced plans to launch six ETFs to the market in the next three months. The ...

GSJBWAM joins IFSA board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Ian Ward-Ambler, managing director at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has been appointed to the IFSA board, replacing Anne O'Donnell, former managing director at Australian Ethical Investment, who has resigned. This announcement comes after Anne ...

No easy gains in Indian equities: Pereira

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
The Indian share market will be a stockpicker's market after the index returned the strongest gains in Asia last year, said one fund manager. John Pereira, managing director at India Equities Fund, said the Indian market posted the third strongest market ...

Taggart receives OAM

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Jim Taggart, national president at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), has been awarded an Order of Australia medal. Taggart received the honour for his work in charitable, community and sporting organisations in Baulkham Hills. According to ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance is excluding the $518 billion Government Pension Fund Global from investing in 17 tobacco companies including British American Tobacco, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco. The Ministry of Finance drafted rules states the ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
A range of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that appeal to religious centric investors has been launched in the US. US-based group, FaithShares Trust launched the Baptist Values fund and Lutheran Values fund, which use an investment strategy that is inline ...

AUI hires capital markets analyst

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Australian Unity Investments has hired former Westfield Group global treasury manager, Osvaldo Acosta, to a new role of capital markets analyst. Acosta was responsible for managing funding, liquidity, interest rates and foreign exchange risk in Australia ...