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Grange announces new chairman and directors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
Grange Securities, part of the Lehman Brothers group, has announced the appointment of a new chairman and two new directors to the board of its Melbourne funds management business Grange Asset Management. Current deputy chairman of Australian Wealth ...

Intangible fund a winning recipe: Macquarie

Amid the craze around growth type funds, global value fund Morgan Stanley Global Franchise has been forced to close its doors to new investors, proving too popular among financial planners. Up until this month Australia was the only country where new ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Tourism in New South Wales's is set to receive a government-sponsored boost in September as Sydney residents are given the big heave-ho. The APEC summit of world leaders, to be held from 7-9 September, is expected to cause traffic and transport chaos ...

FinLit programs damaging schools

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Teaching financial literacy in primary schools simply adds clutter to an already overcrowded curriculum, said Leonie Trimper, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA). Citing examples of US schools being forced to cancel morning ...

Meet the $9b intangible fund

In a short visit to Sydney, a London based fund manager from Morgan Stanley explained why investors have poured nearly $9 billion (US$7 billion) into a portfolio that values companies based on their 'invisible' assets. In Australia the fund has attracted ...

Build websites around users not IT teams

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Financial services firms investing in new websites, software or other digital services risk lost customers and cost blow-outs if they don't test the new services with actual users. Theresa Cunnington, senior usability consultant at iFocus, said, "Technology ...

State Street cuts transaction costs by up to 75 per cent

Big is not only beautiful it is also cheap after State Street Corporation's internal research found that their clients save up to 75 per cent in transaction costs thanks to the group's scale. By studying how US$1 trillion in assets were transacted (bought ...

Aussies spend $8.7bn on celebrity makeover

Financial planners may well need to start asking their clients the question "Who is your favourite celebrity?" after a Virgin Money study found that Australians have racked up an annual $8.7 billion credit card bill to look like their movie idols. The ...

Citigroup revamps hedge fund platform

Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking has developed a new end-to-end hedge fund platform that it said will allow hedge fund managers to do multi-strategy, multi-asset class and multi-currency investing under one roof. The new front-to-back platform ...

A new frontier in asset consulting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Fiona Trafford ...