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RBC Dexia wins $5.6bn custody mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services has won a $5.6 billion (CA$5 billion) custody mandate from fund manager and Insurance Alliance subsidiary IA Clarington Investments. RBC Dexia Investor Services has had a stellar week, winning the custody mandate from fund ...

Pre-retirees map out uncertain future: FSS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
Almost one-third of Australians are planning to ease themselves into retirement through part-time work, according to a First State Super survey. Michael Dwyer, chief executive of First State Super, said discovering how their members intended to approach ...

CSRF doubles international equity holding

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has announced it will double its emerging market holdings in international equities after a portfolio re-weighting. The move will take its exposure from 3 to 6 per cent in international equities ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... slipping one cent to $16.69. Upmarket retailer David Jones was five cents stronger at $5.25. In aviation, Macquarie Airports (MAp) today announced that it had sold its stake in Rome's main airport to Italian-based Gemina for 1.237 billion euro ($A1.97 ...

Macq buys half of Olicc

South Australian based adviser software provider Olicc Technologies has caught the eye of the big Australian, Macquarie, who's software arm has taken a stake in the business. Macquarie's Coin Financial Planning Software has acquired 50 per cent of Olicc ...

Print Super terminates mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Industry fund Print Super has dropped managers Maple-Brown Abbott, Portfolio Partners and Credit Suisse and handed the $340 million in mandates to Tyndall, MIR, ABN AMRO and Generation. Print Super cut Maple-Brown Abbott's $180 million equities mandate ...

Demography is destiny: IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... health, education, family benefits, welfare, superannuation, pensions. "The first IGR put the ageing of the population on the map," he said. "Demography is destiny" and we have to make people realise the unstoppable changes that are coming towards us ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

MIR scores $100m from Catholic Super and Retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
MIR has secured a $100 million mandate from the Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) to be invested in the MIR Australian Equities Fund. Existing CSRF Australian equities mandates with Perpetual and Maple-Brown Abbott will be realigned ...

Contrarian managers make a comeback

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
Active managers are falling behind their contrarian counterparts after Australian share managers turned in their worst quarterly performance since 1990, according to Intech Investment Consulting. Intech senior investment analyst, Fraser Murray, said ...