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J.P. Morgan buys $99bn ANZ custody services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... including global, local, sub-custody and fund administration services to domestic and international institutions and fund managers. It also means the Sydney-based firm will have more presence in Melbourne and Wellington, where ANZ's Custody Services ...

Giant leap for super advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Seven of the country's largest fund managers, including AMP, BT and CFS, have ratified a bold, new IFSA Superannuation Charter - heralding a new culture where consumers, not the planners, dictate the fees paid on superannuation advice. More than 135 ...

Cbus adds ESG into investment contracts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the fund's Investment Management Agreements (IMAs) when appointing fund managers. Trish Donohue, executive manager, investments and governance at Cbus, said the fund is working with fund managers to ...

MLC reviews MasterKey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Financial planners may be able to access more fund managers and investment products on the MLC MasterKey platform following a review. Brent Howells, head of product, MasterKey at MLC, said the firm is reviewing the investment options on the platform ...

No transparency, no mandates: ARIA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Hedge fund managers will need to drastically improve their transparency and communication strategies - or face losing mandates from institutional managers, including the $17 billion ARIA. Lochiel Crafter, chief executive of ARIA, said one of the major ...

Super funds need to reset agenda: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... not a universal position, there are many trustees, many super funds that have been very strongly negotiating with fund managers for quite some time. "We've seen caps on fees, we've seen more calls for fund managers to report on an after-tax basis, so ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Natural Capital joins a nascent group of fund managers hell-bent on saving the planet by backing companies that put the environment first, profits second. Sustainable investing, called by any other name, has been around for decades. But Angus Forbes ...

Computershare to challenge industry incumbents

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... competition in the unit registry services market. Computershare has fully integrated its unit registry services for fund managers, friendly societies, custodians, investment banks, platforms and master trusts, according to a media statement from the ...

Intech adds investment experience

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... trusts and is now a member of the Intech Investment Committee. Stanford spent the past eight years researching hedge fund managers and managing institutional fund of fund hedge fund portfolios in London and Sydney at Ellerston Capital and ABN AMRO Asset ...

Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... just over $60 million in funds so far. "It was developed from a philosophical view. We thought investors are paying fund managers for performance so we wanted to provide that in an option. Isn't that the purest form of investing?" said Denis Donohue ...