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S&P studies single manager alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
Rising investor demand for alternative strategies has prompted Standard & Poor's to issue its first single manager fund report. The Standard & Poor's Alternative Strategies - Single Manager report found found single strategy hedge funds generally performed ...

Unlicensed adviser charged

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
New South Wales based Manouchehr Tivay was convicted of providing financial services without a licence and placed on a two year good behaviour bond after an Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) investigation. Tivay was convicted in ...

Hyperion expands investment team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
Boutique Australian equities manager, Hyperion Asset Management appointed Jason Orthman as senior investment analyst. Orthman previously worked at Wilson HTM Investment Group as a senior research analyst covering the mid cap industrial sector. He will ...

ASFA supports same sex super bill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) is backing the government's proposal to change the law and allow same sex couples to access a partner's superannuation death benefit easier and more tax effectively. In its submission to the Senate Standing ...

AFA education to knock salesman tag

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) finalised the first unit of the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner program, an education course it hopes will reduce criticism of the financial advice industry. Speaking at the AFA National Forum in Sydney ...

AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
AXA Asia Pacific Holding appointed former Prudential Corporation Asia employee, Michael Bishop to regional chief executive AXA Asia Life. Prior to this appointment, Bishop worked as managing director at the Prudential Corporation Asia across the life ...

Cuscal appoints super BDM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Cuscal, a traditional provider of wholesale and transactional banking services to retail financial institutions, appointed Helene Upton as national business manager, superannuation. Upton previously worked at Genworth Financial and was responsible for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... index futures contract was up 64 points to 4958 on a volume of 11,061 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the positive gains in London and the US gave the market a kick start. "We started off with great gusto and ...

Wage bill to drive pension growth: WW

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The UK government's proposal to increase the adult national minimum wage for 21 year olds could raise employer pension contributions by 50 per cent, according to Watson Wyatt. According to the current bill before parliament, employees over the age of ...

IFSA backs Chile FTA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) welcomed the Rudd Government's completion of a Free Trade Agreement with Chile, a destination previously only accessible by US companies. Richard Gilbert, IFSA chief executive, said the agreement ...