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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 ...

AXA appoints group insurance head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... market will be in the way that it manages and responds to its key distribution relationships especially through its master trust distribution network," he said. "There will be an increased focus from human resources consultants, brokers and employers ...

Aon hires Russell for FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Aon Consulting Australia has appointed multi-manager specialist Russell Investment Group to manage the firm's master trust's $1.6 billion in assets and develop a range of specialist investment options. Aon Consulting (Aon) Master Trust investment options ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
IRESS' planning software, XPLAN, has recorded the highest level of satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform ...

Governance before crisis

Corporate governance often comes into the spotlight following a crisis - a trap that super fund trustees should avoid at all costs, says a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday ...