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Australian Unity seals $120m debt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Australian Unity has completed its oversubscribed $100 million bond issue with the final allotment set at $120 million. The offer of unsecured notes, which started out as an $80 million fundraising, closed on April 8. Yesterday 1.2 million Australian ...

La Trobe buys super specialists IE Group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... competency, it's complementary to what we do," he said. La Trobe has $1.6 billion in assets under management and is very active in the Australian residential mortgage sector, both through its lending arm and through its Pooled Australian Mortgages Fund. ...

Life insurance consuming dormant super fund balances

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
More than 25 per cent of dormant superannuation accounts have active life insurance policies causing balances to dwindle through unnecessary fees, new figures show but financial planners can help. According to research house Rice Warner, just over 12 ...

Janus pools $660m in Global Research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... that risk," he added. To address this, Scherman said Janus separates itself from other fund managers by taking a more pro-active approach on risk analysis. "The year 2008 highlighted the differences between risk monitoring and risk management. Monitoring ...

Plum avgs 13.5pc member contrib.

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... the member plans to retire," said Dave Woodall, general manager, client and member services, Plum. To date, the average active investment choice take-up of those that complete the program is three out of four. The program is run by an education services ...

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... order to be effective... trustees (need to) set their strategy around not only minimum default cover but engage members in active decision-making using a combination of technology and education." Paul Sayer, chief operating officer of REST superannuation ...

Russell loses NZ managing director

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The managing director of Russell Investments' New Zealand operations has resigned. Mark Blair, who was based in Sydney, was responsible for strategic direction, products, services and business operations in New Zealand. He was also responsible for strategic ...

UniSuper second global tech mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... the sector for quite some time, particularly in determining how it complimented the existing portfolio, assessing whether active managers could deliver sustainable outperformance, and found that the structural characteristics of the industry supported ...

Brookvine to drive BCS equities distribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... of data on a real time basis into information about changes in share price enables BCS to capture alpha from timely and active investment decisions," said Herlihy. Steven Hall, chief executive officer, Brookvine, said his company is keen to take a more ...

Banks loss is super fund gain: IFM

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... had also seen a strong increase in the amount of money that's been mandated to it for listed equities, both passive and active. IFM was rapidly increasing its funds under management, he said. "In the calendar year 2010, our assets under management were ...