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Skandia appoints retail head

... manager in retail. Black starts his new role next week and will be heading Skandia's platform business, which has $6 billion-plus in funds under management and was awarded the 2007 Rising Star in the John West Platform awards last year. It's the third ...

GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... nudging $1.50 with more price rises to come. Indeed if it wasn't for the surging AUD petrol would already be sitting at $1.80 plus. Reflecting how serious these car makers now seem to be, GM subsidiary Saturn has just announced the launch of what they ...

Half price hedge fund?

... liquidity," said Ken Marshman, JANA's managing director. The fund took two years to develop and aims to deliver a return of cash plus 5 per cent per annum (post fees, pre-tax) over a five year period with a volatility of around 6 per cent per annum. ...

Aussie manager wins global resources award

... This, we believe, will deliver excess returns over the full commodity price cycle." Asked what underpinned the 50 per cent plus gains in the past 12 months, Whitten highlighted the supply/demand fundamentals of iron-ore producers and platinum. On iron ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

... anticipate the results of automation of proxy voting will include: reduce costs, risks and errors in the voting process. Plus increase the time available for investors to make informed decisions about how to vote their stock," he added. Proxy voting ...

iMap spearheads MA education

... managed accounts (MA) in their client's portfolio. The course will cost roughly $300 and involves up to two hours of reading plus an exam to gain accreditation. Dawes said that the course will also be structured in modules so that there is the general ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising the question is the Sensex's 50-plus per cent annual growth, which has totally transformed the way aspirational middle and upper class and high net worth Indians ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... thematic funds, derivative funds, floating rate funds and fixed maturity funds. A lot of interest has been shown in liquid-plus funds," said Agarwal. Behind this too is an army of 60,000 distributor-advisers and two million life insurance agents though ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

... RTM Capital for and absolute return fund and multi strategy carbon fund. The RTM Absolute Return Fund aims to return cash plus 10 per cent, with medium- to long-term annual volatility of under 10 per cent. It has delivered 23.01 per cent since inception ...