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EQT and PIMCO get van Eyk tick

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
Equity Trustees and PIMCO Funds have received AA and A ratings respectively from rating firm van Eyk in its 2009 Global Credit Review Ratings. The EQT PIMCO Global Credit Fund received van Eyk's highest AA rating, while the newly established EQT PIMCO ...

Managers reverse stance on Euro equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
A global fund manager survey has found renewed confidence in the European equities, with figures showing more fund managers plan to be overweight the region in the next year. The Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers conducted in September found just ...

Equipsuper looks for member directors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
The $4.2 billion Equipsuper is looking for member directors to join its board. Equipsuper is requesting fund members to start voting for prospective member directors as election now opens. According to an online statement of the fund, the terms of office ...

UniSuper appoints key advice execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
UniSuper appointed Jason Holandsjo as manager of operations & product and Alex Aracas as national practice manager in the super fund's financial advice department. Holandsjo joins UniSuper from Australian Unity Personal Finance Services where he worked ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...

Future Fund offloads Telstra shares

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
The $58 billion Future Fund has sold 684.4 million Telstra shares or 34 per cent of its Telstra holdings to institutional investors. The Future Fund sold the shares at a price of $3.47 (gross proceeds $2.37 billion) through an underwritten sale to the ...

Investors flock to listed property ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
The number of State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) listed property exchange traded fund (ETF) units on issue has nearly quadrupled in 18 months. The number SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Listed Property Fund ETF units rose from just over five million to a touch under ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Uh, oh! Wall Street wobbled again at the end of last week. But nothing has changed really. Data releases remained mixed - characteristic of an economy that is at an inflection point. Over the past week, the Dow was down 0.5 per cent, the S&P 500 fell ...

Centro chief executives depart

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Centro Properties Group has lost both its global and Australia chief executives - sparking a hunt for replacements and casting a shadow over the group's prospects. Centro announced it was looking to appoint a new global chief executive following yesterday's ...

CBA chair John Schubert retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia chairman, John Schubert, will retire in February 2010 and will be succeeded by current group non-executive director, David Turner. Schubert has been a member of the group's board since 1991, serving as deputy chairman ...