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Praemium adds GPS for planners

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
Listed portfolio administration providers, Praemium, have signed an agreement together with technology providers, Customer Acquisition and Retention Management (CARM) to make their guided planning systems (GPS) tool available to planners. Under the ...

Tyndall managing director steps aside

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
Tyndall will begin looking for a new managing director next week after Barry Sheehan announced he was stepping aside to take on a new role at Tyndall after after less than 12 months in the top job. Sheehan, formerly of HSBC Asset Management, said he ...

Hedge funds lose their shine

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
Hedge funds may be losing some of their polish after it was reported that several super funds were re-examining their hedge fund exposures or avoiding them outright. Superannuation funds including Westscheme, who engages consultant Access Economics ...

New alternatives offering from van Eyk

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Aurora Funds Management has been appointed by van Eyk as the responsible entity for its new van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Plus trust. The trust will be available through the multi-manager van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Fund, which includes a line up ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
TOWER has appointed former MetLife managing director, Gavin Pearce, as its new chief executive officer of investments in Australia. Pearce, formerly both managing director of MetLife Insurance Australia and the former Citicorp Life Insurance business ...

Fidelity Aust Equities Fund upgraded on third birthday

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Fidelity's Australian Equities Fund has had its rating upgraded by Morningstar after growing its local investment team and laying down a track record for its first three years. Morningstar has moved the fund to a highly recommended rating, up from investment ...

Hyperion shuffles the top of the deck

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Hyperion Asset Management has undertaken a high profile re-shuffle of its board as well as announcing a new $30 million mandate. Hyperion has appointed former Perennial chief investment officer and chairman and managing director of newly launched 'house ...

Zurich corporate super businesses for sale

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Zurich Australia is selling off its corporate superannuation businesses Zurich i.super_invest Superannuation (i.super) and Finium Super Master Plan, informing staff this morning that management are currently in discussions with a "number of interested ...

HSBC alternatives eyes off Australian entry

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
HSBC Bank's Hong Kong based alternative investments group is the next in line among an array of international hedge fund managers lining up to enter the Australian market. Speaking at last month's Portfolio Construction Forum conference, senior director ...