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A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
From an $18 billion asset consultancy in 2000 to the $100 billion behemoth today, Frontier Investment Consulting is all grown up - and it is finding new ways to deliver more value to its clients. This week Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

T. Rowe Price to expand Aus equities team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
The local arm of global fund manager T. Rowe Price is on a hiring spree, with plans to recruit three Australian equities analysts ahead of its launch of a domestic equities product later this year. T. Rowe Price today appointed Viral Patel, formerly ...

PIS appoints head of risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has appointed Mark Stubbings in the newly-created role, Head of Risk. In the new role, Stubbings will be responsible for risk advice across the group, the strategic direction of risk product development and managing ...

Super assets reach $1.32tr

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Total superannuation assets grew by 7.7 per cent last year to reach $1.32 trillion, with self-managed super funds accounting for the largest slice of the pie, APRA figures show. Prudential regulator APRA today released its quarterly superannuation performance ...

FOFA briefing fails to shed light on adviser concerns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
A financial adviser who attended the FOFA information session in Brisbane yesterday walked away with more questions than answers on how the public can benefit from the proposed reforms. Tim Ross, a financial adviser from Brisbane-based Ross Financial ...

Let the games begin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Financial services regulator ASIC this morning released its timetable for the introduction of market competition, which will allow Chi-X Australia to compete head to head with the ASX, and said the new market integrity rules (MIRs) should be in place ...

ACFS awards innovation and investment stewardship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The local investment community celebrated innovation and investment stewardship at an awards gathering in Melbourne last night, with Care Super, Goldman Sachs Asset Management & Partners Australia and La Trobe Financial Services among this year's winners. ...

Macquarie Funds remove performance fee

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Macquarie Funds Group has made drastic changes to the fees charged by its International Infrastructure Securities fund, including the removal of the performance fees charged by the manager. "We have moved to simplify the fund by removing the performance ...

AUSCOAL and Maritime drop merger talks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
AUSCOAL Super and Maritime Super have decided not to merge, opting instead to pursue more strategic partnerships, for now. In a joint statement, Maritime Super fund chair Paddy Crumlin and AUSCOAL Super's Arthur Weston said that their fund members would ...

SMSFs a blueprint for future super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
From Better Super to Stronger Super and now future super, the Gillard Government endorsed self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a model for retirement savings in the years to come. Speaking last night at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association ...