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Back office firm eyes super growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Back office administration firm MainstreamBPO has re-branded its Group Benefits business to SuperBPO as it continues to target new super fund clients. SuperBPO provides member administration, unit pricing and accounting to industry, corporate and retail ...

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... press release that the chairman did not want another full five-year term for personal reasons. It was reported in the mainstream media that fellow board member Trevor Rowe had been fighting Murray's reappointment. Trevor Rowe is to leave the board early ...

Franklin Global Growth gets three-star rating

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... ahead of the market and meet objectives," S&P said in a statement. "Generation differentiates itself from many of its mainstream competitors by integrating sustainable investing factors into its investment approach." Insync Global Dividend Growth had ...

Converging techniques give investors more options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... is allowing traditional managers to construct these customized products in better regulated "wrappers", which gives mainstream investors even more confidence, said Mauppin-Higashino. A prime example of this development trend is volatility products where ...

Macquarie Funds remove performance fee

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... in finding a global infrastructure benchmark that is representative of a manager's underlying portfolio due to many mainstream global infrastructure indices being heavily weighted to integrated utilities, with lower weightings to transport or 'user demand' ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... opportunities and funding requirements for diamond projects. "Diamonds are still not yet recognised as an asset by mainstream investors, even though prices for diamonds, particularly larger stones of better quality, have increased during the last years ...

The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... report, S&P fund services found that 94 per cent of departures of key investment professionals this year have been from mainstream investment managers. More than a quarter of those that jumped ship left a mainstream house to join a boutique, while 31 ...

New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... under control, and see which assets can be used or rented out to improve the LIC's financial situation, according to mainstream news reports this morning. The news comes less than a week after boutique investment firm Bell IXL Investments made a takeover ...

Former planner pushes for cruelty free super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... are among the very best performers," said Lee Coates, director of Cruelty Free Super. "They embarrass the majority of mainstream managers with no [cruelty-free] criteria by outperforming year after year, so you can wave a vegan fund and say 80 per cent ...

More workshops to prep for fee-for-service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... of financial planning groups offering advice through fee-for-service five years ago, the advice model has now gone mainstream - and there are workshops a-plenty for those who are still mulling over their options. Seven years ago, a firm called Centrestone ...