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Regal bags hedge fund award

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
Regal Funds Management has won the Best Asian Relative Value Fund Award at the annual Eurekahedge Asian ceremony in Singapore. Regal's Amazon Market Neutral fund aims to provide returns with low correlation to equity markets. "Regal has always sought ...

Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Challenger Financial Services has launched Bentham Asset Management, an investment boutique created on the back of the group's recently purchased assets from Credit Suisse. Bentham will be managed by portfolio manager and principal, Richard Quin, and ...

Australian Ethical CIO resigns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian Ethical Investment's chief investment officer Martin Halloran has resigned to take up an undisclosed senior role in public service. Head of research James Jordan will assume his post in the interim. Phillip Vernon, chief executive of Australian ...

Great Southern investors fight back

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers has filed a lawsuit for Great Southern investors seeking the court to void loans given to invest into failed agribusiness investment schemes, including loans provided by Adelaide Bank. The class action covers 1,700 investors ...

Dimensional wins $45m Aussie eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Dimensional has won a $45 million Australian equities mandate from private health insurer Medibank Private. With over $170 billion in assets under management worldwide and around $20 billion locally, Dimensional will manage the mandate, which targets ...

BTIM names software provider for platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... Investment Management (BTIM) has selected data management software firm, Cadis, to build a centralise data management platform. Phil Stockwell, chief operating officer at BTIM, said the platform would enable business growth and improve data efficiency ...

Ipac buys stake in risk firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
Financial planning dealer group, ipac, has bought a 40 per cent equity stake in Australian Financial Risk Management (AFRM), a business with more than 2,000 in-force policies representing $10 million in premiums. This deal represents the first time ...

Freaked out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
"Aaahh Freak out! Le Freak, c'est Chic." (Le Freak, Chic) Had it not been for the already jittery mood in the financial markets, Wall Street would have ignored last night's not so good economic news. The S&P 500 index recorded its biggest drop in more ...

Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
Macquarie Life has launched an insurance product that allows clients to make multiple claims under the same policy and provides greater flexibility on the definitions of conditions. The Macquarie Life Active enables clients to claim when circumstance ...

Addwealth seeks to triple FUA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
WA dealer group Addwealth is aiming to more than triple its funds under advice (FUA) to reach $1 billion in three years, as part of its expansion plans to the Eastern seaboard. Paul Foster, chief executive of Addwealth, said he is looking to grow the ...