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Not made in China

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
Profits from China's export boom are driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but while the price is right, quality issues go far beyond a toxic toy story. Manufacturing remains China's main growth driver, attributable to its ...

Magellan puts money where its mouth is

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Magellan Financial Group has launched two unique retail funds that only pay performance fees when returns exceed both a relative market benchmark and 10 year Australian Government Bond yields. The high conviction Global Fund is a market-uncorrelated ...

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Adviser groups charging their franchisees too much is forcing practices to consider switching groups or whether they should set up on their own, said Darren Wise, managing director of Financial Planning Services Australia (FPS). "Some adviser practices ...

Winds continue to favour private equity

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... more successful deals likely, according to van Eyk, although the sector may not be suitable to retail investors. Nigel Douglas, van Eyk investment strategist, told attendees at the fourth annual van Eyk conference that the conditions which have seen ...

Magellan hires ex-CFS head of distribution

Magellan Financial Group, formerly the Pengana Hedge Funds Group, has appointed Frank Casarotti as head of distribution for its funds management activities. Prior to joining Magellan, Casarottie worked at Commonwealth Bank where he was head of adviser ...

Hatfield leaves Pengana

... consortium took over the hedge funds business, to be re-branded Magellan Financial Group. "I think what Chris Mackay and Hamish Douglas are doing has upside potential, but I was only a small shareholder and I want to concentrate on reverting to running ...

New tool to benchmark personal financials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... product, no referral, no individual-information sharing and no charge basis The Wealth benchmarks service was founded by Dr Douglas Turek, who said, "The service exists to help consumers become more interested and better understand their finances and ...

Hatfield opts out of Packer's new Pengana

... exclusively on running Pengana's own in-house funds and developing some new ones. "I think what Chris Mackay and Hamish Douglas are doing has upside potential, but I was only a small shareholder and I want to concentrate on reverting to running our own ...

Pengana's hedge fund arm finds a new home

Malcolm Turnbull's brainchild and 'house of hedge funds' Pengana Hedge Funds has been turned over to a new consortium, including James Packer and former UBS investment bank chairman, Chris Mackay, who will also be launching a new long only global equities ...

WB planner expansion Australia-wide

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
... join the Brisbane team. Andrew Hunt has set up his own WB financial office and is looking to expand onto the Gold Coast. Douglas Bannam has been appointed to Buddina on the Sunshine Coast. Susan Joyce will join the Perth office while Lindsay Overton ...