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Mercer Super Trust improves online tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Mercer Super Trust has upgraded its online features to allow members access to additional personal information about their super in real time. The new online features introduced for Mercer Super Trust members include a 'workflow view' which allows members ...

BNP hires head Aus and NZ

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
BNP Paribas Securities Services promoted Pierre Jond as head of the firm's Australian and New Zealand operation. Jond starts his role at the end of November and will begin the hand over with Jean-Marc Pasquet when he arrives next month. Pasquet returns ...

Russell overhauls diversified funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
Russell Investments has revamped the firm's diversified funds, widening its investment ranges for equities and property as part of a move to a 'high conviction' investment approach. Andrew Pease, investment strategist at Russell Investments, said the ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... Yet others remain adamant that one day, job losses - which would plunge the country into an economic contraction - would arrive. It is hard to argue with this prognosis especially given the extent of the deceleration in confidence as evidenced by recent ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Just about five years ago in late 2003, then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Health Super's chief investment officer Brendon Shepherd is leaving the fund end of this year. Shepherd has been the CIO of the $7 billion-plus fund for over five years. A statement from the firm said that he is taking time off next year to spend with ...

T.Rowe Price grows FUM ten-fold

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
While many fund managers suffered massive outflows in the last three years to rivals or to the market, global equity specialist T.Rowe Price grew its local portfolio from $300 million to over $3 billion over the same period. Investors big and small ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
Mortgage managers and originators say they are taking the news of Macquarie Bank's decision to quit the mortgage market in their stride, insisting they had multiple funding sources and could replace the Macquarie funding without feeling any impact on ...