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Future Fund slashes cash for alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has halved its 30 per cent allocation to cash in three months - with alternative assets getting the biggest boost in allocation following the move. The Future Fund's allocation to cash in September stood at 31.6 per cent ...

Bird to step down as CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Andrew Bird, chief executive at Morningstar Australasia, is stepping down from the role at the end of March. Bird will serve in an advisory role after he leaves this position. "Now that Aspect Huntley and Morningstar have been fully-integrated, I'm ...

Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker banned

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
ASIC has banned Melbourne broker Mark McKenzie, previously employed by Citigroup Wealth Advisers, from providing financial services for three years. ASIC found that between 26 July and 8 August 2006, he possessed inside information regarding a possible ...

PIMCO senior exec to head Janus

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Janus Capital Group has appointed the former chief operating officer at PIMCO, Richard Weil, as chief executive effective next month. The group's chair Steve Scheid said the board chose Weil because of his work at PIMCO, including setting up the German ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
A financial adviser who gave his clients false disclosure documents was slapped with a five-year ban from providing financial services. ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Research group Morningstar has rebutted a US study that suggested its ratings system failed or virtually lost all of its predicted ability when measured over a full market cycle. In early December, Advisor Perspectives, a US-based investment trends ...

AMP Cap appoints Japan MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Toshiaki Yamashita as managing director and representative director in Japan after he joined the firm in July in a similar role. Yamashita previously worked at AMP Capital in Japan as acting managing director. He ...

AXA Asia Pacific taps SMSFs, restructures fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
AXA Asia Pacific makes a big push into the SMSFs sector, flags plans to remove all entry, exit and trail commission products from its APLs and unbundle advice fees from product fees on all of AXA's on-sale products. In an investor presentation today ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Government superannuation schemes have not escaped ongoing governance reviews, with the schemes' administrator ComSuper mandated to outsource some of its work to cut taxpayer bill and the 'Commissioner for Superannuation' role dropped in favour of a ...

Disability review assesses role of insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
The Federal Government has announced a feasibility study into disability care and support services, which will review how a new system could co-exist with the injury insurance industry. The government's Productivity Commission is investigating the cost ...