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Centric enhances direct equities services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Centric Wealth is building on its direct equities and individually managed account (IMA) capability following demand from its high net worth clients. John McMurdo, chief executive at Centric Wealth, said the planning group's high net worth clients are ...

Lodestar hires two senior analysts

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Lodestar Capital Partners has appointed Michael Kelly and Gary Armor as two senior team members of its equities research team. Kelly joins Lodestar from Portfolio Partners where he was a founding partner and helped manage several equity portfolios. ...

OneVue and BGL to white label UMA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
OneVue and BGL Corporate Solutions have teamed up to develop a unified managed account (UMA) for Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) advisers. Both companies plan to white label the product to other financial advice dealer groups. The service ...

Co-contribs bungle is costing taxpayers: Hartsuyker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The Australian Tax Office's superannuation co-contribution suspension could cost taxpayers at least $1 million, according to shadow minister, Luke Hartsuyker. Hartsuyker, shadow minister for consumer affairs, financial services, superannuation and corporate ...

Instos target affordable housing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... spot, as some institutions express interest in awarding mandates to Affordable Housing Australia, said managing director Michael Kerans. Kerans has been in talks with several large institutional investors for the past few months, including industry super ...

Aus equities FMs target solid result stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Australian equity fund managers are still finding well-valued stocks despite the local market moving sideways in the past six months. The S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index returned more than 35 per cent in the year to January. But the same index traded ...

Westscheme drops GMO and BlackRock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Westscheme has dropped its emerging market equities mandates with GMO and BlackRock, appointing Schroders in their place. The WA-based super fund negotiated with Schroders a fee structure comprised of a moderate base fee and a significant performance ...

Amundi wins mandate for volatility strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Amundi Asset Management has signed a new local institutional client to its volatility strategy. Richard Borysiewicz, chief executive in Australia for Amundi Asset Management, said he couldn't reveal the new institutional client but expected to implement ...

Temasek invests $50m in renewable fuels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Temasek Holdings, has invested $50 million in Californian-based renewable chemicals and fuel start-up company, Amyris Biotechnologies. The company will use the funds to support commercial plant design and construction ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... price index contract was 10 points higher at 4,985 points, on volume of 9,701 contracts. City Index market strategist Michael McCarthy said the last time the S&P/ASX200 was at this level was in October 2008. "It's quite an impressive performance... A ...