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UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...

Matrix adds ETFs to APL

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has added the Aurora Sandringham Dividend Trust, a number of iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs) and two State Street SPDR ETFs to the group's approved product list. The group's approved product list will now include the State ...

Cuffe joins Centric board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Centric Wealth has appointed former Colonial First State chief executive Chris Cuffe to the firm's board. Cuffe is well known for his management roles at Colonial First State where he helped pioneer the FirstChoice platform and, separately, Challenger ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... does nothing to encourage consumers to get that help." This week, financial advisers were on the news pages of mainstream press following a story on a couple of accountants who received notices from ASIC delivered to their doors. This was reported earlier ...

Three FMs pull S&P property ratings

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
AXA Australia, BlackRock and Tankstream Capital have dropped the Standard & Poor's rating on certain property funds. The funds were rated by Standard & Poor's between 2007 and mid 2008 but were placed 'on hold' in August last year when each fund suspended ...

S&P rates former CS funds 'four stars'

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Standard & Poor's assigned five former Credit Suisse international equity funds a 'four stars' rating after the funds shifted to Aberdeen Asset Management's model portfolio. The ratings upgrade comes after Aberdeen Asset Management confirmed the funds ...

Bennelong hires Scully for compliance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
Bennelong Funds Management appointed former ING Investment Management Asia Pacific chief executive and managing director Paul Scully to the firm's compliance committee. Prior to working at ING Investment Management Asia Pacific, Scully worked at Mercantile ...

ING adds cap protected funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
ING Australia has released two funds on the OneAnswer platform to provide investors with capital protection that rises as the value of fund the increases. The ING Protected Growth fund 2 provides 85 per cent protection on the funds and the Protected ...

ING drops guarantee for interest

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
ING Australia has released the next version of the ANZ Flexible Term Deposit Fund that provides a higher interest rate instead of the government guarantee. The ANZ Flexible Term Deposit Fund Plus provides an interest rate of 3.5 per cent per annum for ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Only two in seven funds were awarded an A rating in the latest van Eyk global listed infrastructure report, at a time when the sector lost more than 30 per cent of its value. The UBS 50-50 Infrastructure Index lost 32 per cent over a year to April ...