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MFS on expansion trail

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
US-based fund manager MFS has increased its market share in global equities funds management by 44 per cent in 12 months - underpinning a worldwide expansion strategy that includes bigger operations in Australia. Visiting Australia last month, MFS chief ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Credit Suisse Investments hopes to fill the local investment gap for alternative asset classes that are genuinely uncorrelated to domestic equities - a move that ends in "catastrophe". Filo Sedillo, the local managing director in alternative investments ...

Under 30s shine in Future Leaders Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Julia Feher from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) won this year's IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards for her paper recommending a "pay for use" financial planning business model. The IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards program ...

Fidelity signs exclusive research deals

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
Fifteen years ago, Fidelity Investments changed the rulebook on investing by having one of the most research-heavy teams that other investment firms could only dream of. Today, the firm is raising the bar again with a new way of getting proprietary ...

ING to divest insurance and investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Dutch banking and insurance giant ING plans to dispose its insurance and investment businesses over the next four years to shore up its balance sheet and repay its government debt. In a company statement released overnight, the group revealed a massive ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Asset consultant Frontier, which has $91 billion in funds under advice, has sent a letter last week to all the external fund managers of its super fund clients to consider charging flat dollar fees, instead of asset-based fees, on their investment mandates. ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
Financial planners will struggle to get many Gen-Yers to follow financial advice after yet another study found one in four have never budgeted in their life and, even when they do, it's to blow the lot on a holiday. St. George Bank commissioned a study ...

UBS property fund mgrs exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
Andrew McGrath and David Curtis, co-portfolio managers of Australian-listed property securities at UBS Global Asset Management have resigned. Jakov Males, director and senior portfolio manager (Australian equities) will take over their portfolios mid-November. ...

Galleon sinks $4bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Galleon Group, one of the largest hedge funds in the US with $4 billion in assets shuts down after US watchdog SEC investigates the group's founder, Raj Rajaratnam, for insider trading. In a scandal that rocked New York's Manhattan set, Rajaratnam became ...

Ignorance is not financial bliss: Fidelity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Nine out of 10 investors in the US fail to understand the full benefits of using a type of individual retirement account (Ira), called the Roth Ira, and the lack of knowledge is costing them a lot of retirement money, a new study found. Research from ...