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Perpetual appoints new staff, Walsh exits

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... institutional sales and service - Australian equities, has resigned from Perpetual. Walsh will finish his time at Perpetual in March. In the meantime, the fund manager is on the lookout for a suitable replacement for Walsh's position. "We will look for ...

Macquarie targets funds mgmt acquisitions

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... more specialised acquisitions. At December 30, MFG had $73 billion in assets under management, down from $78.6 billion in March last year. The big falls were in real estate securities, down from $3 to $1.6 billion and listed equities, down from $9.4 ...

CFS pumps up ESG investing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... officer David Dixon. Colonial First State first signed up to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment in March 2007. According to CFS, the global financial crisis has put into context the need for more ESG considerations as the current ...

Superpartners opens voice portal

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... cent of the calls will now be automated," she said. Superpartners will deploy the voice portal to its first fund client in March 2009, and will be available to other fund clients from April 2009. Superpartners is the largest superannuation administrator ...

ING snaps up Sentry stake

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... and certainty for members' businesses in the future. Since Sentry announced the initial partnership with ING Australia in March 2008 its adviser network has increased an extra 25 (now 98 advisers) and expanded beyond Western Australia to other states ...

Vanguard CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... currently principal and director of Vanguard's portfolio review group in Pennsylvania, is poised to take over Smith's role in March. "He brings a new skill set to us here in Australia, in the sense that he's being reviewing, researching, working with ...

AMP Banking taps Cuscal ATM network

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... customers will continue to receive access to fee-free ATMs, despite the new Direct Charging rules that will come into effect in March, after the bank signed a deal with Cuscal, owner of the rediATM network. AMP Banking, which doesn't have its own ATM ...

Aircraft fund seeks capital

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
The $73 million super fund-backed Investec Global Aircraft Fund is launching a second capital raising exercise in March. After a year following its first capital raising, the IGAF - which is backed by Australian superannuation funds AUSCOAL Superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... Commonwealth Bank will place $750 million of shares with Merrill Lynch and use the proceeds to redeem its PERLS II securities in March 2009. CBA shares lost 65 cents, or 2.17 per cent, to $29.35, National Australia Bank increased 11 cents to $20.01 ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... a newspaper column and major economic blog last week. The proposal is similar to one presented by the Rainmaker group in March this year. In their proposal, Rainmaker outlined how lifting employer contributions and introducing compulsory employee contributions ...