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Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Bennelong Funds Management has joined forces with former UBS portfolio managers John Campbell and Jeremy Bendeich to launch an Australian small caps fund. Campbell and Bendeich, who have been on gardening leave since departing the UBS Small Companies ...

AQR appoints former van Eyk head

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
AQR has appointed Michael Angwin, former van Eyk head of distribution, to national distribution manager as part of its new alternatives strategy. The Sydney-based role will see Angwin responsible for introducing institutional-grade alternative strategies ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
There really must be something in that age-old adage, "sell in May then go away". It's still early days of course, but if the first two May trading days on Wall Street is any guide, investors might be packing up for the entire month. Nothing's really ...

Energy Super first feature rollout

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Energy Super, the newly merged offspring of ESI Super and SPEC Super, has taken its first actions in the market with the creation of a discount program targeting existing and new members. The program offers Energy Super members' discounts on a range ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Exchange traded fund provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Aren't we, Australians all, just lucky? We come back from loooong holiday and then wake up to another big move higher on Wall Street. If we, Australians all, came back to work a day earlier we would have felt differently about today for apart from watching ...

Great Southern case rages on

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Investors in a class action against failed agribusiness firm Great Southern live to fight another day after access to new documents has been approved. In a hearing held April 4, former Great Southern directors, Peter Patrikeos and Jeffrey Mews were ...

RBS targets retail with ETIS launch

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has teamed up with Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) to bring exchange traded international securities to Australia, enabling retail investors to access US stocks through the ASX. Australian investors will be able to ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
BlackRock Investment Management targets retail superannuation clients with a separately managed account (SMA) product that offers SMSF like features to investors. The investment manager is anticipating flows of around $100 million into the super SMA ...