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Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Investors would do well to get back to the basics of investing, according to Schroders, with head of Australian equities, Martin Conlon, arguing the focus on 'new' asset classes and an obsession with headline data and forecasting has led some to forget ...

Mellon scores GESB global mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Mellon Global Investments Australia has been awarded a global equity mandate from the Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB). The Australian distribution subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, the global giant with more than A$1.3 trillion ...

IMCA annoints new chair

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Lorraine Berends, principal of Marvin & Palmer Associates and director of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has been elected chair of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia. Berends has been a director ...

INVESCO boosts insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
INVESCO has appointed an ex-NAB executive as head of institutional client relationships to work closely with recently appointed head of institutional sales, Peter McClelland. Juliana Howard was appointed to the role of head of institutional client relationships. ...

Centro targets SMSFs with lower min investment

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Centro Properties Group has halved the minimum investment for two of its flagship funds, the Centro Direct Property Fund (DPF) and the Centro Direct Property Fund International (DPFI). In a move Centro hoped would prove attractive to the self-managed ...

HBOS expands with Whittaker Macnaught purchase

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
HBOS Australia's wealth and insurance arm, St Andrew's Australia, has acquired independently owned Queensland financial planning group Whittaker Macnaught. The acquisition takes St Andrew's funds under management to almost $2 billion with its team of ...

AMP Capital Investors appoints portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
AMP Capital Investors has announced the appointment of a new portfolio manager to the international and Future Directions Funds team. Sally Boone joins AMP Capital Investors from JANA Investment Advisors where she held a role with dual responsibility ...

US losing grip on depositary receipts: JPMorgan

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
JPMorgan is predicting a record year of activity for depositary receipts, however activity will migrate away from the US towards the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries in particular. Depositary receipts allow companies to access cross-border ...

Mercer unveils web-based compliance for super funds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
Mercer has teamed up with compliance and risk management technology specialist InterTextual to develop a new web-based compliance solution for super funds. Mercer partnered with InterTextual in response to concerns raised by a number of its super fund ...

French banking giant heads Down Under

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
CrA(C)dit Agricole Asset Management, part of the giant CrA(C)dit Agricole banking group, has opened a Sydney office to be headed up by ex-Skandia executive, Richard Borysiewicz. Borysiewicz said CAAM's primary focus would be on the institutional market ...