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Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Australia's Future Fund has awarded a new mandate to London-based alternative investment firm, Winton Capital Management. The $74.6 billion Future Fund, set up to help future Australian Governments pay the cost of public sector superannuation liabilities ...

NAB grows FUM despite tough times

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
MLC & NAB Wealth increased their funds under management by 6.8 per cent to $121.9 billion in the year to March and added 241 financial advisers to its ever-growing network, according to half-yearly results released yesterday. The National Australia ...

Planners react badly to FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Financial planners have reacted in fear to the Future of Financial Advice reforms, anticipating less pay for more work - and would pass costs on to clients, research firm CoreData has found. The independent research canvassed the views of 358 advisers ...

Fund managers fail to make the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Research house van Eyk says Australian Equities fund managers need to lift their game, recommending only 18 of 65 managers in its latest sector review. Just 12 core and six concentrated strategies were able to earn van Eyk's "A" rating in the Australian ...

ASIC bans "deceptive" planner for five years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Corporate watchdog ASIC has banned a financial planner for five years after he tricked his clients with shonky advice which included arranging margin loans for them, it said today. ASIC said Ian John Weaver of Clear Island Waters, Queensland, broke ...

Director to challenge ASIC ban

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Financial services regulator ASIC today said it banned a director for three years from providing financial services - but the director is appealing against the decision which she called "disgraceful". Tracey Burnell, of Doncaster East, Victoria, was ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Instos move into ETFs as sector surges

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Investors have continued to surge into exchange traded products with ETFs increasing in number and in total market capitalisation over the past year, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) said yesterday, with institutional investors moving in. Over the ...

UniSuper chair to retire

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
University superannuation fund UniSuper is to appoint director Chris Cuffe as chairman when Elizabeth Bryan steps down from the role at the end of June. Cuffe was a former chief executive of Colonial First State Investments and Challenger Financial ...

BT Group profits rise $29 million

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
BT Financial Group's profits rose by 14 per cent to $243 million in the six months to March - a stellar result driven by an improvement in the funds management business, Westpac Group said today. The wealth management firm's $29 million rise in economic ...