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FPWS unveils new SMA service

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
First Prudential Markets is entering the separately managed accounts arena via a partnership with First Prudential Wealth Services. "[Managed accounts] are highly tax efficient, provide direct ownership of shares and can be cheaper than managed funds ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...

Record fall in super fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
The average fee charged by super funds fell to 1.36 per cent, the first fall recorded in three years, according to the latest Rainmaker fee survey that reviewed 502 workplace, personal and retirement not-for-profit funds and master trusts. Andrew Keevers ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... the upside, a majority 80 per cent of those surveyed did say that they were satisfied with the response of their master trust or custodian when they did face liquidity problems. Francesco Squillacioti, the Asia-Pacific regional business director for ...

Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... Funds Management chief executive, said previously investors could only access the firm's diversified funds via its master trust. "In the highly volatile bear market conditions experienced these past 12 months the three Astarra Diversified Funds have ...

Smaller funds to plateau

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Super funds under the $200 million threshold are expected to wither off until the industry consists of between 50 to 100 players in the next five years. Unsurprisingly super funds, particularly corporate funds in the $100 to $200 million bracket, are ...

Pentafin beefs up IT team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Pentafin has appointed US expat Joe Vetto and ex-Challenger operations support manager Karen Chim to its IT team. Joe Vetto, the former co-founder and vice-president of product development for Seattle-based X6 Technologies which is now Minecode, has ...

Intech rebrands

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... already rebranded," said a company spokesperson for Intech. However, the Skandia name will remain for the fund's master trust product range. All investment strategies and objectives will also remain unaffected. At the end of last year, Intech conducted ...

Ben Davis bags CIMA scholarship

... Partners' Ben Davis is the latest recipient of the BlackRock-sponsored CIMA Scholarship for Retail Managed Funds and Master Trust Research Analysts. BlackRock said the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) Program addresses the demands and requirements ...

Industry responds to APRA report

... different purposes. "The models are actually different. An industry fund looks at investment portfolios while with a master trust board, usually there's a financial planner who looks at the individual client's desires and aspirations which then goes ...