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McTaggart resigns as QIC chief

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Dr Doug McTaggart will resign as chief executive of QIC next year after 14 years in the role. An external search is underway for his replacement. Retiring on June 30 next year, McTaggart will fill an advisory role for the fund manager although he told ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
QIC has appointed former Australian Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China ...

QSuper CIO joins the ASFA Board

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... 20 years experience in the financial services industry. Before joining QSuper he was chief executive, asset management at QIC, and also spent several years in an investment consulting capacity with Towers Perrin and Davey and Associates. "While Michele's ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Commonwealth cut loans fixed for up to five years by up to 0.60%. Susan Buckley, Managing Director, Global Fixed Interest at QIC said all eyes would be on the Federal Open Market Committee meeting tonight seeking reassurance that policy-makers would ...

Funds ignoring foreign exchange risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Financial Standard Currency Management Forum heard yesterday. According to Troy Rieck, managing director, capital markets, QIC, sectors of the industry are guilty of treating foreign exchange as an administration function and as a result risking their ...

Alpha adds BlackRock and QIC strategies

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... 17.18 per cent over a nine-year period since its inception. That is 8.94 per cent over the benchmark. In May, Alpha added QIC's GFI alpha strategy to its multi manager line up. The QIC GFI Alpha strategy, launched in July 2005 invests in broad global ...

Northern Trust lands QIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Northern Trust has formed an investment operations outsourcing agreement with institutional fund manager QIC following a comprehensive due diligence and selection process. As a custody services provider, Northern Trust will provide a broad suite of ...

QIC creates new role of MD Insto Business

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Former Perennial Investment Partners business development executive Cliff Smith has joined fund manager QIC as managing director of institutional business. In the newly created role, Smith will be responsible for developing relationships with major ...

QIC donates $100k to flood appeal

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
Queensland-based fund manager QIC has donated $100,000 to the Premier's Flood Relief Fund and is offering a dollar-for-dollar matching staff donations to the fund. QIC lost access to its Brisbane CBD Head Office for almost two weeks due to floods but ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... covered bonds is broadly positive for the development of a bond market, investors can't expect a windfall in yields, said a QIC credit market expert. Australia's super funds already have comparatively low allocations to fixed interest and it's difficult ...