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QSuper appoints NAB for custody

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... of Mercer (Australia). The review included Mercer performing independent due diligence and benchmarking. According to Michael Cottier, QSuper's chief financial officer, NAB was successful as they understood the required services for QSuper's operating ...

Budget underwhelms planning groups

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
Financial planning groups have applauded tax discounts on savings and higher super guarantee payments, but most don't expect the Federal Budget's announcements will heavily impact client strategies. The Rudd Government's Federal Budget announced last ...

Tasplan invests $21m in hedge fund strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
Tasplan has invested $21 million investment in AQR Capital Management's Wholesale DELTA fund. The mandate takes the local fund's assets under management to approximately $50 million. The AQR Wholesale DELTA fund was launched in September last year. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... contract was eight points higher at 4,618 points, on volume of 25,753 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the market had been buoyed by the European bailout, with the exception of resources stocks. The European ...

J.P. Morgan rolls out structured products to planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
J.P. Morgan is working with financial planning dealer groups to cater to growing demand for white-labelled structured products. David Jones-Prichard, executive director of equity derivatives and structured products at J.P. Morgan, said rising investment ...

KiwiSaver eggs more savings, but not enough

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
A survey has found far more New Zealanders are saving money for retirement but very few are using the KiwiSaver scheme to its full potential. AMP's SuperWatch survey found KiwiSaver is the preferred retirement savings option with 67 per cent of respondents ...

S&P downgrades Challenger Aus Share funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... the team's fundamental research coverage. This review is due to take place next month," said S&P Fund Services analyst, Michael Armitage, in a statement. As for the ratings downgrades, S&P Fund Services analyst James Gunn commented, "While a number of ...

BT Financial frames big picture in 3D

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... 3D graph as the centrepoint, with Dr Caton; Melanie Evans, head of superannuation; Chris Freeman, head of BT Wrap; and Michael Bailey, investment specialist BT Wrap, featuring in the ads. Carly Loder, head of marketing at BT, said the campaign would ...

PGI global strategy wins $500m mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Principal Global Investors' Global Growth Equity has picked up a $500 million mandate from the Japanese government pension fund. John Pihlblad, portfolio manager of the strategy, said more than $4 billion is managed on behalf of clients outside the ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult ...