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Showing 1401 - 1410 of 2002 results for "Australian Equities"

AMIST backs after-tax benchmarking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... AMIST Super has become the first super fund to adopt the FTSE ASFA Australia after-tax benchmarks for its Australian equities managers. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST Super, which has more than $280 million in invested in Australian equities ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... markets well, a bit out of sorts today. Friday night's performance on Wall Street was not telling enough to sway Australian equities one way or another. US equity indices were generally flat on the day, down for the week and up on the month, which, according ...

State Super Fin Services CIO resigns, takes VIC Super post

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... Welsh said they are not in the market to appoint mandates at the moment). At present, VIC Super manages their Australian equities in-house alongside some fixed income investments run on a passive basis. "Oscar's an investment veteran with an impeccable ...

IOOF gains $225m in net inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... merged the two investment committees and appointed former Telstra Super investment executive, Dan Farmer, as Australian equities portfolio manager during the half year. The group's main focus in the past six months has been the transition of its IOOF ...

Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... 2000, he joined Merril Lynch Australia as head of Australian sales and was promoted the next year to head of Australian equities before being appointed co-country head in 2002. A year later he moved to Hong Kong with the firm to become head of equities ...

Instinet adds four to Sydney office

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... and also at ABN AMRO. Glenn Lesko, chief executive at Instinet in Asia, said the firm wants to trade more Australian equities for local clients. "To date, the majority of our business has been trading international equities for local clients, to local ...

HOSTPLUS $1bn mandate up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... nearly a billion into equity markets last year - $550 million into international and probably $350 million into Australian equities. "We have pretty strong cash flows, and we have another billion to spend this year," he said. The fund wrapped up its ...

Telstra appoints property and Aussie eq heads

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... follow the recent appointment of Jim Christensen as chief investment officer. Eliopoulos is the new head of Australian equities, and is being joined by Lee, in the role of head of property. Eliopoulos joins Australia's largest corporate super fund after ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... Australia, Andrew Jackson, currently the head of research will be head of investments responsible for SAE Australian equities business. He joined BGI in 2003 and reported to Waked as a member of the Australian Equities Investment team. Michael McCorry ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... Australia and New Zealand. This means its global equities rating is inline with its 'fair value' rating on Australian equities. Mercer's view on Australian dollar has changed to 'unattractive' relative to the US dollar because the firm predicts the dollar ...