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RBF-Tas terminates 452 Capital mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
RBF-Tasmania has pulled the plug on investments with 452 Capital following the departure of key investment staff, axing a $170 million mandate with the firm. Philip Mussared, chief executive of RBF-Tas, said the $3.4 billion fund is going through the ...

SWIFT slashes messaging cost

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
SWIFT, the provider of global financial messaging services, is planning to reduce its price of messaging on its core FIN service by an average of 20 percent next year. According to the company, the 20 per cent reduction is part of a targeted 50 percent ...

INGIM hires two for Aussie equities

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
ING Investment Management (INGIM) Australia has moved swiftly to strengthen its Australian equities team after suffering the departure of its small companies lead portfolio manager in August. Phillip Hudak has been hired by INGIM as a small companies ...

Anglican Diocese signs SRI deal with Mercer

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney has appointed Mercer to an implemented consulting mandate focused on socially responsible investing. The arrangement involves Mercer tailoring a new multi-manager fund focused on SRI - a key criteria for the diocese. The ...

CFS replaces 452 Capital with Integrity, CFSGAM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Colonial First State Investments (CFS) has moved swiftly to replace 452 Capital with other managers following the shock departures of three senior executives, including the wife of co-founder and star fund manager Peter Morgan, from the boutique fund ...

Challenger poaches ING portfolio manager for small cap fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Challenger's launch of an Australian small companies fund, its tenth boutique, inadvertently resulted in an ING small cap fund being placed 'on hold' yesterday. The departure of Sinclair Currie, former lead portfolio manager at ING, for Challenger prompted ...

BTIM hires new portfolio manager, Swift departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... multi-strategies business with the appointment of a new senior portfolio manager for the diversified funds while Robert Swift's role as head of multi-strategies has been made redundant. Martyn Wild leaves Russell Investments after joining the firm in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market was higher at noon, overcoming a weak start in a lacklustre market. At 1205 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.7 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 4,403.0 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had climbed 8.7 ...

Ausmaq goes live on SWIFT tech

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Ausmaq has become the first Australian investment platform to use live automated funds transaction processing over SWIFT technology. Mark Candy, general manager client services Ausmaq, said using SWIFT was an extension of the firm's push to drive automation ...

BTIM realigns income and diversified funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... make way for a 'pure alternatives' division. Gonzalez said he is in talks with the current head of multi strategies Robert Swift. "The multi strategies will now become focused purely on alternatives and, in that space, we currently have a program in ...