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Russell revamps structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has restructured along five global services lines that will work collaboratively with the firm's regional offices to deliver a better service to Australian based clients. The revised structure means Russell Investments will operate ...

Kofoed leaves ESSSuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Don Kofoed, chief executive of the $14.6 billion Emergency Services & State Super, has resigned due to ill health. ESSSuper said in a media statement that Kofoed's resignation was accepted by the Board of ESSSuper, with understanding but with great ...

Advisers eye annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... provide a relative low cost means of enhancing clients' portfolios in need of guaranteed income", says Lisa Plotnick, associate director and lead author of this report. "We see many firms looking at the RIA channel as an opportunity for annuity distribution. ...

FIIG hires fixed income AD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
FIIG Securities appointed former Commonwealth Bank of Australia executive, Sheila Sall, to associate director. Sall previously worked at Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a global markets specialist and at Societe Generale in senior management and marketing ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Mutual funds are beating their institutional counterparts with the former reporting almost 30 per cent less outflows during last year. According Callan Associates, institutional asset losses were "extensive" across 17 traditional equity and fixed income ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

Snowden departure forces ratings review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... on the CFS Australian Property Securities Opportunities fund remains unchanged. Ben Davis, Zenith Investment Partners associate director, said the firm had already met Andrew Nicholas and support staff which includes Antoinette Platter. "We've been aware ...

Russell slashes Aust jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... "The expense reductions will come from a variety of sources and include the difficult step of reducing the size of our associate population by approximately 20 per cent by year end."

Fee-for-service cuts planner revenue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Advice businesses shifting from commissions to fee-for-service experience revenue drops but not as substantial as expected. Updated research from Elixir Consulting has found that businesses that charge a set dollar fee for their ongoing advice did not ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...