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Pengana gains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
Standard & Poor's has given the Pengana Australian Equities Core fund a 'three stars' rating. The fund's strategy is active long-only that uses fundamental stock selection to construct a high conviction portfolio. The portfolio aims to generate absolute ...

Karagianis moves to MLC

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
MLC has recruited Michael Karagianis, former UBS Global Asset Management (Australia) head of asset allocation and investment strategy, to join the group. Besides working for four years at UBSGAM, Karagianis was previously the head of asset allocation ...

Delays for Military Super merger

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The merger of the Military Super board, the Defence Force Retirement & Benefits Scheme Authority, and the ARIA Board will have to wait as the Senate did not get a chance to vote on the bill prior to the recess. Military Super noted in a web update that ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
European Union laws that come into effect next year will allow Australian fund managers to invest funds for overseas investors with less admin headaches. It's the new world breaking into the old world. Australian fund managers, many of whom could trace ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Liquidnet, a firm which provides a marketplace to facilitate institutional equities trading, is expanding its trading operations to include New Zealand listed securities. Liquidnet will commence trading of New Zealand equities next Tuesday, offering ...

BRW Rich 200 lists fin services best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Platinum's Kerr Neilson, ex-Macquarie chief Allan Moss and Maple-Brown Abbott co-founder Robert Maple-Brown led the charge of financial services execs who made it to this year's BRW Rich 200. Platinum manages more than $17 billion in client funds spread ...

Tora expands to include Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Asian technology firm Tora is expanding its equity trading platform, TORA Crosspoint, to cover new markets including Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. TORA Crosspoint is an off-exchange liquidity venue comprised of the firm's internal liquidity flow ...

AMP boosts SMA service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
AMP has teamed up with New Zealand-based tech provider FNZ to improve the online functionality of its separately managed account service. The new features of the AMP Personalised Portfolio, which came into effect this week, include a real time reporting ...

Opes Prime director faces 22 charges

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Opes Prime director Laurie Emini has been charged with 22 offences of breaching his duties, following investigations by ASIC into the company's collapse. Laurie (Lirim) Emini was charged with offences of breaching his duties as a director of Opes Prime ...

Changing of the guard at Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian fund managers looking to do business with Asian sovereign fund Temasek will need to woo new leaders at the firm namely the new president and the new head of portfolio management announced last week. Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara has been appointed ...