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Macq bank splits to grow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
A majority 99.5 per cent of shareholders has approved Macquarie Bank's split into a banking and non-banking group, a move that mirrors a similar step made by investment banks in the US. The banking group will include funds management, real estate, treasury ...

CFS buys music copyright assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
First State Media Group, part of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, has bought one of the largest independently owned and operated record labels in the US ahead of the Australia launch of its first media fund. First State Media Works, a fund ...

MLC expands corp super team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
To assist its corporate superannuation growth strategy, MLC has appointed David Woodall to head employer superannuation sales and Gordon Chrystie to business superannuation sales manager. Woodall has more than 18 years experience in corporate super ...

FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Drought stricken farmers and companies have the opportunity to receive free financial planning advice through the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) program being trialled in the southwest NSW region of Sunraysia. The FPA approached the ...

State Street uploads Charles River

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
State Street has incorporated Charles River technology to provide real time market data and improve efficiency for Australian investors seeking more alternative asset classes. Paul Khoury, vice president and head of product services at State Street ...

Sunsuper buys more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
The sub-prime led crisis is allowing institutions to take advantage of a lack of competition and acquire alternative assets on the cheap, according to Tony Lally, chief executive at Sunsuper. "What we've found is because of the sub-prime, there's greater ...

Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Index manager Vanguard joins the growing list of investment companies championing investor financial literacy when it launched a line of educational materials based on their popular Plain Talk Guide format. The guides cover seven different topics including ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has stripped its portfolio of $37.6 million worth of tobacco shares after an environmental, social and governance (ESG) review of the fund's investments. The tobacco stocks represented only 0.29 per cent of the fund's ...

RaboPlus cuts entry fee to 25bp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
RaboPlus, one of the younger entrants to the local managed fund market, is to give investors an early Christmas bonus when it reduced its entry fee by 50 basis points to 0.25 per cent until the end of the year. The fee reduction applies to all funds ...

Aon beefs up Sydney team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
Aon has appointed three senior executives to its Sydney office to improve client service, expand its business and develop its mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy. Kevin O'Reilly has been appointed head of business development while Joel Hepburn-Brown ...