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Vanguard CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia's longstanding chief investment officer Eric Smith has resigned, with US Vanguard principal Joseph Brennan poised to take over the reins of the $60 billion asset manager. Robin Bowerman, head of retail at Vanguard Investments ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... ensure their client portfolios are able to deal with changing macro economic conditions, according to van Eyk. Nigel Wilkin-Smith, van Eyk head of the strategic research unit, said financial planners must be more proactive in their portfolio management. ...

AUI trust posts solid returns, holds value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... gained 11.27 per cent and, despite the market downturn, many of its underlying direct properties have held their value. Chris Smith, AUI property portfolio manager, said the trust managed to post solid returns because the healthcare property sector is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... per cent to $30.36. "Rio is just regaining what it lost (last week)," Bell Potter Securities senior client adviser Stuart Smith said. "The London Metals Exchange Index looks quite good with copper and nickel up," he said. Gold stocks were mixed with ...

Morgan Stanley and Citi to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Morgan Stanley and Citi announced yesterday that it would combine Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group and Citi's Smith Barney, Quilter in the UK and Smith Barney Australia to form a global wealth management powerhouse. The joint venture ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... for the entire Eurozone economy. Again, where there's smoke.... Back to America, Citigroup - after ceding control of its Smith Barney retail broking business to Morgan Stanley - is reportedly changing its business model and plans to divest more non-core ...

Climate change takes priority: Zurich

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... insurers worldwide, according to Zurich. "Climate change should not be on page five - it needs to be on page one," said David Smith, chief executive of Zurich Financial Services Australia. "[The year] 2008 is going to be remembered as the year that the ...

Coombe names wealth management execs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... management business executive team. Coombe named John Shuttleworth as superannuation & investment solutions general manager; Mark Smith as insurance general manager and David Lees as wealth transformation director. In addition, Mark Spiers was appointed ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... funds (ETFs), or as a benchmark for actively managed mutual funds. The index has been licensed to Malaysia-based Corston-Smith Asset Management to be used as the basis for a long-only corporate governance investment fund. "ASEAN member countries are ...

Smith leaves GSJBW property fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... was downgraded by Standard & Poor's Fund Services from four to three stars after the fund's co-portfolio manager, Andrew Smith left the team. Smith's departure means Tim Hannon, head of real estate at Goldman Sachs JBWere, continues his role as portfolio ...