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MLC appoints dream team in tech services

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Three technical services experts from Asgard, Aviva and Colonial First State have joined MLC in senior roles as the firm expands its technical and financial adviser support services team. Gemma Dale, former Asgard Wealth Solutions technical manager ...

SSgA ETF targets high yields

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
State Street Global Advisors has launched an Australian ETF aimed at investors looking for high yield. SSgA has introduced the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF, which seeks to provide investors with high and sustainable dividends. ...

CalPERS taps Brazilian real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010

Non super advice takes off: StatewideSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
StatewideSuper has seen an increase in members seeking non-super advice - prompting the fund to renew its focus on holistic planning services. StatewideSuper's internal financial planning arm has been in place since 2004. In the past year, the fund's ...

Investors shun social media, for now

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Nearly 75 per cent of institutional investors and stockbroking analysts snub social media for investment research - but a minority group visits websites such as YouTube to analyse investors' attitude to brands and stocks they follow, new research shows. ...

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property mandate with AMP Capital Investors following a $100 million Sydney CBD office acquisition. AMP Capital Investors' Property Portfolio Services has a mandate with Sunsuper to manage a diversified, direct property ...

Singapore to win asset mgmt race: report

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Singapore is on track to become one of the biggest asset management hubs in the world by 2025 - usurping Tokyo and Boston. According to the See the Future report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which maps the world's sectors growth including asset management ...

ARIA chief rejoins State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Outgoing ARIA chief executive Lochiel Crafter is returning to State Street Global Advisors as head of investments for Asia Pacific. Crafter announced last month that he was leaving ARIA after joining the fund in May 2008. In the newly created role at ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

Englund heads BT dealer groups, Younger departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
BT Financial Group has appointed practice management head Matthew Englund as its new head of dealer groups, following Neil Younger's departure to head Commonwealth Financial Planning. Mark Spiers, BT Financial Group's general manager of advice, today ...