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Van Eyk adds four

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... research team. Investment analysts Varun Venkatraman and Nimalan Govender will focus on researching equity fund managers, while Alex Dore and Victoria Yates join the company as research associates through a new graduate program. Venkatraman began his ...

Converging techniques give investors more options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
A convergence of investment techniques used by traditional and alternative managers is giving investors more confidence to try asset classes and styles they previously would have avoided, said a visiting European fund expert. "Convergence in techniques ...

Board changes at Wilson HTM

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... new position. The company also welcomes Andrew Coppin as the new head of private wealth management where he is replacing Alex Ihlenfeldt who left in late 2010. Coppin will be looking to grow funds under management and increase the number of advisers ...

Coalition introduces bill to abolish SG age limit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The Coalition opposition is again testing its power on the floor of the hung parliament by introducing a bill to abolish the superannuation guarantee age limit. The government only wants to increase the SG age limit to 75 from its current level of 70 ...

Asia specialists join Premium China

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Premium China Funds Management has appointed four Asia investment specialists. Derek Paas, a former financial advisor at CBA and Macquarie Bank, will be based in New South Wales, having recently returned from the UK where he was most recently a senior ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
As the world rebuilds its regulatory structures around the financial system, it needs to recognise that the system is an integrated network of ecosystems, not a set of independent machines. Speaking at yesterday's Melbourne Financial Services Symposium ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
The super fund campaign to increase inflows through a forced rise in compulsory contribution levels seems to be stalling with the AIST again maneuvered into coming out to defend the rise from another business lobby attack. "Employers had nothing to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... the midst of a strong surge in business investment and it is expected to continue to stay strong. ANZ senior markets dealer Alex Sinton said the Australian dollar was pushed up by the higher oil price but Thursday's capex figures also helped its rise. ...

FPA slams industry fund 'one track agenda'

ELISE BURGESS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has weighed in on the opt-in arguments advocated by sections of the trade union superannuation movement, calling the action "alarmist" and part of the industry funds "one track agenda". The FPA yesterday said ...