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Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... Australian and global markets and what to look out for when investing in the Australian and international sharemarkets. Professor Bob Deutsch -KPMG Professor of Taxation, ATAX UNSW will provide a blueprint of the "do's" and "don'ts" for geared investors ...

BT targets advisers with contribution tracker

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
BT Wrap releases new product to help advisers monitor clients' super contributions, avoid excess penalties and take advantage of caps, as the deadline for 2011 declarations approaches. Around 60, 000 Australians were penalised for excess super contributions ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Wall Street bobbed up and down along the zero line last night, seemingly lost as to which way to go. At the end of the bell in New York, it decided just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. ...

ESI and SPEC form Energy Super

FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... to watch in superannuation after ESI Super and SPEC Super complete their merger in April. ESI Super and SPEC Super chairman Bob Henricks said Energy Super reflects their focus on the nation's energy industry. "We feel Energy Super not only reflects our ...

Insync hires senior portfolio manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Former head of research and portfolio manager at Seilern Investment Management in London, Bob Desmond, has joined international equity fund manager, Insync Funds Management as senior portfolio manager. Desmond raises the investment team numbers to four ...

Welsh retires as VicSuper CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Bob Welsh, the long standing chief executive of the $7.7 billion VicSuper, will retire at the end of this month. Welsh, aged 64, has led VicSuper since its inception on 1 July 1999, when it replaced the Victorian Superannuation Board as Trustee and ...

ACCC gives go ahead to SGX-ASX deal

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... the national interest. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have already been critical of the deal, with Greens leader Bob Brown going so far as to condemn the transaction on the basis of Singapore's human rights record. Nothing stirs emotions more ...

VicSuper wins sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... investment returns. Therefore, investing in a carbon aware portfolio is simply a commonsense investment decision for us," said Bob Welsh, the fund's chief executive, at the time of the mandate.

Founder of GSAM quant group to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Bob Jones, founding head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management global quantitative equity group in Australia, will be retiring from the firm at the end of the year, after 24 years with the company. S&P fund services subsequently confirmed that the ratings ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... all be retained with the Australian equities value and fixed income teams to continue to be led by their respective heads, Bob Van Munster and Roger Bridges respectively. "The Tyndall Investments management team in Australia has participated in the strategic ...