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$38bn VFMC bigger and better

The $38 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to become a more powerful financial house after chief executive Syd Bone outlined a series of changes set to come into effect in the next financial year. Based in Melbourne, VFMC is ...

Jana offers long-short trusts to retail space

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
Jana Implemented Consulting (Jana), together with MLC, is stepping away from its traditional research and consulting space by launching two new alternative investment trusts aimed at the retail market. The Jana Australian Share Long Short Trust and ...

Investors strike gold with LinQ

The new wunderkid in resources is Perth-based fund LinQ, which has managed to grow investor money by as much as 500 per cent thanks to astute plays made here and overseas. LinQ started life as Rothschild's resources fund 'Golden Arrow Fund II'. But ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

Private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG is using its international private equity clout to bring the best deals to retail investors at home. MillhouseIAG is a Brisbane-based fund manager with operations in Singapore, Germany and the US. It was started ...

IWL snaps up BOSS Software

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2006
IWL announced that it has acquired BOSS Software International and plans to integrate BOSS' technology into the VisiPlan platform. BOSS supplies analysis software to the insurance and financial planning market, including their Life Research, Risk Dimensions ...

Corp governance now a mainstream business imperative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
Corporate governance is becoming even more important as it transitions from being just a compliance obligation to a business imperative. ISS has just released the results of its 2006 ISS Global Institutional Investor Study where it interviewed more ...

Praemium goes public with $18m capital raising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
Portfolio administration provider Praemium Limited has lodged a prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), hoping to raise $18 million from its imminent ASX listing. Lodge Corporate Services is underwriting the $18 million capital raising with ...

Skandia adds flexibility with non-commutable pensions and TAPs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
Skandia has added non-commutable allocated pensions (NCAPs) and term allocated pensions to its superannuation product menus. Will Burkitt, head of investments at Skandia, said, "The introduction of NCAPs is one of the most exciting innovations in retirement ...

Women like risk, men think too much

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
While behavioral finance helps explain the things that economics gets wrong, a greater understanding of investor behavior may help us develop investment products that better suit individuals. Tracey McNaughton, senior economist with BT Financial Group ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
US fiduciary wealth has surpassed individual wealth, presenting new opportunities for pension funds and other managed funds to leverage the weight of money to achieve corporate and social change. Speaking at the CMSF conference yesterday, William Greider ...