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BTIM CFO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
BT Investment Management's chief financial officer, Earle Macgregor, has resigned from the firm. Macgregor will step down as chief financial officer at the end of April. Cameron Williamson, BT Investment Management financial controller, will act as ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Financial planners must drop the traditional 'set and forget' strategy and become more dynamic to ensure their client portfolios are able to deal with changing macro economic conditions, according to van Eyk. Nigel Wilkin-Smith, van Eyk head of the ...

VFMC restructures investment teams

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
The $36 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is combining its quantitative and equities team into a single entity as part of a sweeping reorganisation of the fund. VFMC chief executive and director Sydney Bone said the group is "reorganising ...

Aviva SMA gets adviser tick

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Aviva is going to crack the separately managed accounts market in mid-2009 with a product solution tailored to easily fit into an adviser's portfolio. According to Aviva spokesman Tim Cobb, the group is currently at the end of the IT build of its SMA ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Australian based wealth management administration providers Bravura and Praemium have scored international deals that will see the firms export their services to Vietnam and the UK respectively. Bravura signed a $5.8 million agreement with one of Vietnam's ...

AMP forays into SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
One of the country's largest financial planning groups, AMP, has launched its own separately managed accounts product following advisor feedback. Paul Sainsbury, AMP product manufacturing director, said the launch of the product, the AMP Personalised ...

New year, new stocks: Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Suncorp Investment Management has dramatically changed the investment line up within its Investment Management Word Equities Trust when it axed 50 per cent of the stocks in the portfolio and reconfigured fund manager allocation. The trust has increased ...

Industry funds turn to listed assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Unlisted assets will soon take a back seat as industry funds eye "good value" assets in the listed space in 2009, according to Frontier Investment Consulting. Frontier, which has approximately $97 billion in funds under advice, is taking a cautious ...

Quadrant gives away $1000 rollover prize

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Quadrant Superannuation is offering its members the chance to win $1000 if they roll over their super. In a newsletter emailed to members, the super fund gave its members the opportunity to win the cash until mid December. Members with more than one ...

Divide super for members: Rainmaker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Australians should be separated into those that want a 'set and forget' fund and others that want a full service super solution to ensure members are in the appropriate fund, according to Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker Information director of research. Speaking ...