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FirstChoice platform offers PIMCO bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Colonial First State FirstChoice platform has included PIMCO bonds to its investment options. The PIMCO offering is the first global bond investment option available on FirstChoice and it follows a strategy of seeking strong, consistent investment returns ...

Superpartners appoints ANZ COO to board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
Superannuation service provider Superpartners has appointed former COO of ANZ David Cartwright to its board of directors. At ANZ, Cartwright was responsible for technology, operations, property, sourcing and shared services, and accountable for 12,000 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sharp falls on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank expects to taper its bond-buying stimulus measure later this year. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June ...

IFM beefs up Debt Investment team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has expanded its Debt Investments team with two new appointments. Linda Cunningham will join IFM's Melbourne office as investment director. Broadening the fund manager's global reach will be Hannah Lindberg, in the London-based ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Oh-em-gee! That slowly revving engine of the world economy is running out of puff. Woe is us, we're in trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Of the $10 billion worth of mandates handed out to Australian equity managers in the past 12 months, a staggering $5.97 billion has been given to just three investment houses, data from Rainmaker Information can reveal. The three fund managers, which ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
Victorian superannuation fund, VicSuper recently made significant changes to its core international fixed interest portfolio to better manage what it regards as heightened global sovereign risk. Working with investment adviser Towers Watson, fund manager ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Australia is not the only developed nation that believes it has a financial literacy and awareness problem as Barclays Bank in the UK has just released the results of a study that found Britain may have an even worse problem. The study found 36% of ...

Barclays cops $80,000 fine

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... when a representative of Barclays' London operations office requested by e-mail that they receive $13.8 million from the Barclay's Sydney office. On 27 January 2011, the requested amount was withdrawn from the Barclays' Client Segregated account and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after an encouraging report on the US labour market and better retail sales pushed Wall Street higher. At 0806 AEST on Friday, the local December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 4,471. ...