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ASFA elects new board members

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... long time ASFA member. Rubinsztein is new to ASFA, but ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said she would provide "a fresh pair of eyes." The pair will commence on November 15 after the ASFA annual general meeting, where the association will also decide ...

CFS awards $450m portable alpha mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... portable alpha mandate. The mandate is part of First Choice's Multi Manager Fixed Interest portfolio. Franklin Templeton will pair its global absolute return strategy with an underlying beta to provide the portable alpha. The absolute return strategy ...

Intech rounds out product team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... Katherine Burns as head of investment product and former ipac product manager Julie Smith as investment product specialist. The pair commenced their positions on October 17 and will work with senior investment product specialist Joanne Brady. Burns was ...

International ETFs debut on ASX

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
One of the world's largest exchange traded funds (ETFs) provider, Barclays Global Investors, has paired up with the local stock exchange to provide investors access to international shares and indices at a fraction of their current costs. The Australian ...

Industry fund ads off target?

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... executive of marketing, media and communications group Evolution Media. She said despite recent successes with their 'Compare the Pair' campaign, the industry fund body was missing the point. "'Are you paying too much in fees?' & that's not really the ...

Compare the pair campaign is back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
... Consumers can expect a renewed round of industry fund television advertising based on the now firmly established 'Compare the pair' theme. The campaign follows release of several 2006-07 performance surveys that show the normal-1-2 per cent advantage ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... to Watson Wyatt at Westpac, Credit Suisse and in the UK at Lazard Brothers, Fidelity and Dimensional Asset Management. The pair are already familiar, as Spence previously conducted research into the company as part of his role at Watson Wyatt rating ...

Going green means getting ahead: RepuTex

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... outperformed the ASX 200, with an almost 17 per cent gap between the two. Year to date figures also showed the ASX a clean pair of green heels, with 16.48 per cent growth compared with only 11.35 per cent for the local index. Other RepuTex indices also ...

Court stops pair posing as bank

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has obtained court orders to prevent the unauthorised financial business 'The Federal State Bank of Australia' from calling itself or acting like a bank. The supposed "bank" was held up as an institution ...

Mortgage brokers bounce back in latest mystery shop

Mortgage and Finance brokers have beaten stereotypes to come up well in a survey of 104 members by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, contrasting sharply with a recent CHOICE magazine report criticising the integrity of brokers selling ...