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Prudential selects IMPACT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
Prudential Asset Management has chosen Impact Investing's IMPACT software to improve its ability to manage equities and minimise risk. IMPACT is a desktop software product for portfolio managers that acts as an information base for performance data ...

Sherry withdraws from Lift inquiry

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
Minister for superannuation and corporate law Nick Sherry has removed himself from investigations into Lift Capital Partners after he found out two members of his extended family had investments with the embattled firm. Sherry informed the acting Prime ...

LIFT Capital collapses

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Margin lender LIFT Capital follows the collapse of Opes Prime and has called in McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators yesterday. McGrathNicol administrators, Tony McGrath and Joseph Hayes, are investigating the firm. They have not provided the reasons ...

Raising stakes in charity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Chris Cuffe, the former chief executive of Colonial First State, has called on the top guns in the market to provide their time and resources for free in a new fund that diverts a proportion of profits to charity. Cuffe, who will receive no fees nor ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The CFA Society of Sydney has launched its Ethics and Financial Integrity workshop this week and intends to offer the program internally for finance companies in the coming months. "This is the first in a series of what we'd like to roll out on a more ...

Alternatives cause valuation headaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Super fund legalsuper has taken extra steps when reviewing its alternative assets portfolio to address concerns that members could risk losing their savings from mispricing of illiquid assets. The super fund now do monthly valuations of their alternative ...

Macq joins Charles River FIX network

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Macquarie Capital Securities Asia joins over 35 algorithmic brokers offering their algorithmic strategies through the Charles River FIX network. Under the deal, Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) clients will have access to 10 Macquarie ...

Silk and Vilgan join govt council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has boosted the superannuation industry's representation on the Financial Sector Advisory Council (FSAC) by appointing AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk and QSuper chief executive Rosemary Vilgan to the group. The group is ...

CSRF puts faith in the ballot box

... unions. The call for nominations drew eight eligible members to fill the four vacancies. This year Paul Murray, Paul Dolan, Michael Hagan and Bernadette Baker have all raised their hands for re-election. But keen to come on board this time around are ...

AERF selects MLC IC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
MLC Implemented Consulting has been chosen by the Australian Eligible Rollover Fund to multi manage the super fund's $800 million in assets. AERF collects member benefit payments from people that are considered 'lost' or are no longer eligible to be ...