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Take governance seriously or lose investor support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
Institutional investors have thousands of companies in Australia and overseas bidding for their support and unless companies start taking their governance concerns seriously these investors will vote with their wallets. "Some companies seem to have ...

Vanguard indexes pension

Vanguard Investments Australia has launched Personal Pension Plan, a new product that relies on the long-term benefits and low costs of index investing to drive retirement savings. All of the investment options under the new product will follow an index ...

Vanguard broadens Asia-Pacific reach

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
Vanguard Australia has restructured its senior management team to focus on the growth opportunities in the wider Asia-Pacific region, not just Australia. Local managing director Jeremy Duffield has been appointed managing director of Vanguard Asia-Pacific ...

That four-letter word

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
Debt is becoming a colossal problem in Australian and we seem to be losing the battle to pay it as defaults across credit card debt, personal loans and mortgages have risen nationally by 35.5 per cent. In their latest study, based on 14million-plus ...

ING IM tailored to suit

ING Investment Management has restructured its existing management team to cater for recent developments in the investments industry, particularly growing institutional demand for alpha/beta-specific strategies. It's not quite a radical departure from ...

Bravura and Perpetual develop new SOA package

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
Bravura Solutions has teamed up with Perpetual to develop a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) compliant application, Sonata Business Services. Developed with Perpetual as part of its Unit Registry consolidation project, the software will be available ...

Frontier appoints four new analysts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Frontier Investment Consulting (Frontier), has grown its investment research arm appointing four new analysts to the team. Erin Cullino, Tom Frederick, Cara Maxworthy and Sarkis Tepeli all start in September. This week, Frontier lost the ACT Department ...

Harvard Endowment Fund chief quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and manager of the $41.5 billion Harvard Endowment Fund, has announced his resignation, effective at the end of 2007. He will return to California-based Pacific Investment Management ...

ING hires former CFS currency exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
Sydney based ING Investment Management has appointed Dan McCarthy to senior portfolio manager within its international equities team. McCarthy will manage the tactical strategies area within the international equities team beginning on September 18. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
The Australian share market remained sharply lower at noon, after being dragged down by a US market still racked with fear about the fall out in the US sub-prime mortgage sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed 165.4 points, or 2.68 ...