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Cash lifelines still strong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Investor sentiment might be perking up as global market rebounds continue, but cash holdings are still at decade highs and climbing, new figures from Merrill Lynch show. Cash positions in Europe have reached their highest levels since 2001, with 42 ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

Sentry selects van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Research house van Eyk has signed a three-year contract with dealer firm Sentry Group, which has over $2 billion in funds under management. The deal gives Sentry's more than 185 practices, which encompass 330 financial advisers, access to iRate, van ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

This is the final online newsletter from Financial Standard this year. The editorial team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year. The first online newsletter next year will appear on January 11 but until that time, the website will ...

Perpetual Private Wealth boosts FUA to $8.5bn

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Perpetual caps the year with its third acquisition in private wealth, which takes the division's total funds under advice (FUA) to $8.5 billion. This week Perpetual bought Melbourne-based advisory firm Fordham Group for $35 million, a deal that is expected ...

BT Financial names new head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
BT Financial Group chief executive Rob Coombe is taking a new post within Westpac and will be replaced by former Westpac NZ chief Brad Cooper at the helm. Westpac chief Gail Kelly has announced three internal appointments to her executive team namely ...

Add $5,000 to your super: MTAA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Some funds offer holidays, others hand out Myer vouchers - but MTAA Super is giving one member the chance to boost their savings by $5,000 if they rollover their super into the industry fund. MTAA Super, the not-for-profit fund for the automotive industry ...

ESI Super pumps up insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
The $2.7 billion ESI Super has partnered with Australian Income Protection (AIP) and MLC to offer improved insurance to its 21,000 members. ESI Super is encouraging its new and existing members to take out new income protection cover, provided by AIP ...

Solaris wins CFS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management has been awarded a mandate by Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The mandate takes Solaris's funds under management to $3.4 billion since inception in January 2008. Denis Donohue, managing ...