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Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Investors who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According ...

MetLife appoints insto distribution head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
MetLife Insurance has appointed former Marsh Employee Benefits national manager, Peter Smith, as head of institutional distribution for MetLife in Australia. Smith, in his most recent role of national manager at Marsh, was responsible for group and ...

Perennial ramps up international business strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
Perennial Investment Partners has appointed an international business development manager to gain more UK, US and Middle Eastern clients. Michael Crivelli, executive chair at Perennial, said a number of the fund manager's boutique strategies are highly ...

Cosgrove and McCullagh nominated to CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
General Peter Cosgrove and former Military Super chief executive John McCullagh have been nominated as member representative directors for the Government's proposed Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. Both Cosgrove and McCullagh were nominated ...

NZ Super buys Shell assets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
A consortium including the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has bought the Royal Dutch Shell's New Zealand distribution business assets for more than $540 million. The deal includes all Shell's "downstream assets", which include the business' retail ...

MMC pays $428 million in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Marsh & McLennan Companies, which owns consultant Mercer, has agreed to pay $428 million (US$400 million) in settlement for a lawsuit filed six years ago that accused the firm of breaking securities law covering its contingent commission practices. ...

Equities could deliver zero returns: JANA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
JANA's longtime investment expert, Ken Marshman, predicts there's a 25 per cent chance that equities as an asset class will deliver low to zero returns over the next 10 years - a grim reality that should spur trustees to start lowering the risk in their ...

OneVue introduces portfolio blocking

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Separately managed account provider OneVue has unveilled a new portfolio blocking service to its SMAs to protect the intellectual property of fund managers. Brett Marsh, head of transition strategy at OneVue, said the protection of intellectual property ...

Neuberger Berman buys Lehman Bros

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Neuberger Berman has agreed to acquire the businesses of Lehman Brothers Trust Company, N.A. and Lehman Brothers Trust Company of Delaware. Neuberger Berman Group which has approximately $194 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2009, announced ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
More than 250,000 SMSFs can now more easily access SMAs after OneVue scored a major deal with BGL Financial Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. ...