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QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
QIC has awarded a $250 million mandate to UK-based asset manager Henderson Global Investors' Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly ...

Skandia exec heads to BT

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
BT has lured former Skandia executive Judy Clark to the organisation as national manager of Wrap Advantage. Clark has over 20 years of experience and was previously Skandia's national key account manager. She begins in August. "We are thrilled to be ...

Economic round-up: Kiwis at war with inflation

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... growth is balanced whereas New Zealand's growth is curiously ragged and perhaps this is why new Zealands prime minister Helen Clark has tried to revive the Trans-tasman currency idea. But what would be the upside for Australia?

Mercer appoints senior portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Mercer Global Investments has appointed a new senior portfolio strategist to its Australian investment team. Phil Graham joins Mercer after six years at Access Economics, most recently as head of manager selection on their market portfolio managers. ...

AIG improves insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... client market. "Our product development agenda has once again been adviser driven," general manager of distribution, Brett Clark, said. "Our key areas of focus are to help address the chronic underinsurance problem in Australia, to help advisers drive ...

Allco to be headed up by ex-BT chief

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
Former head of BT Financial, David Clarke, has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of Allco Finance Group. Clarke has over 25 years experience in the industry, including executive roles with MLC/Lend Lease, BT financial Group ...

BT head of alternatives departs, new role created

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... alternative investment solutions has resigned and will be replaced by a new head of multi strategies. BT has promoted Al Clark to the newly redesigned position of head of multi strategies to replace the outgoing head of alternatives, Richard Keary. Clark ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

Mercer awards mandate to INVESCO

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... INVESCO fund within the alternatives asset class, with the balance remaining invested across eleven other managers. Russell Clark, chief investment officer at Mercer, said, "The Fund incorporates a range of interesting underlying strategies which we ...

Super funds to back new home equity mortgage group

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Superannuation funds are set to get behind a new home equity mortgage group, headed up by the former chief executive officer of Rothschild Asset Management, that will bring shared appreciation style mortgages to Australia. Peter Martin together with ...