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Mutual funds gain record flows

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
Equity and bond funds in the US attracted over $300 billion in the first half of this year -the best net flows in mutual funds for more than two years, according to a report. The Strategic Insight global mutual fund database shows 85 long-term products ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
It will take the global hedge fund sector another four years to recover assets lost since 2007, but its year-on-year growth will be faster than that of the managed fund sector, new research shows. According to Cerulli Edge, global hedge fund assets ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Many Australian and New Zealand signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) are lagging behind their overseas counterparts on implementing the principles, according to a progress report. The UN PRI Report on Progress ...

X-rays on APLs for Matrix advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Matrix Financial Solutions advisers are now able to see the underlying assets, investment strategies and currency risk of products in their approved products list, as part of the dealer group's latest research tool upgrades. The new research tools identify ...

Rio Tinto seeks super trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Corporate super fund Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund is on the hunt for three new directors to join its trustee board. The Rio Tinto fund, which had $2.3 billion at the end of June last year, said three of its current member directors are completing ...

MacarthurCook CEO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Craig Dunstan, founder and managing director of MacarthurCook, has resigned following the firm's acquisition by AIMS Securities Holdings. Dunstan resigned yesterday, and sold all of his shares not subject to escrow to AIMS under the bid. Dunstan founded ...

Instreet BDM hires pay off

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Instreet Investment's fund inflows have doubled to over $10 million a month since the firm hired a business development manager in Queensland and Melbourne. The firm hired Gabriel Carey and Susanne Bransgrove as senior business development managers ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Volatility is not just a market barometer of investor sentiment, it is an emerging asset class too, said a fund manager that has amassed $5.8 billion on volatility strategies since 1999. French fund management giant Credit Agricole Asset Management ...

LGsuper expands options

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Queensland-based LGsuper joins the growing number of super funds that are keeping pace with members who want more options within their super. LGsuper was traditionally a "no frills" fund that provided superannuation services to current and former Queensland ...

Premium Investors outlines capital options

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
The Premium Investors board has put forward three resolutions including amending the firm's constitution and a further on-market buy back scheme to deal with capital management issues. The first proposal is to carry on with an off-market buy-back which ...