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ING and BGI awarded most AAA ratings by FSIU

Of 119 diversified funds currently offered to the Australian wholesale market, 28 are worthy of a top AAA rating, according to a survey which rates funds in terms of both investment performance and risk. The number was also considerably higher than ...

Asgard adjusts benchmarks for SMAs

Investment platform Asgard has adopted more conservative asset allocation benchmarks for its range of preset model portfolios, as part of a relaunch of the group's separately managed accounts (SMAs) - Funds. And, mirroring the efforts of other master ...

Alpha wins UFM Australian equity mandate

United Funds Management (UFM), the investment division of SMF Funds Management Ltd, today announced the appointment of Alpha Investment Management as one of four managers of its Australian Equity Fund. Alpha replaces Schroder Investment Management Ltd. ...

St George Bank announces pricing of its Crusade Global Trust No 2

St George Bank has today announced the pricing in New York on Wednesday of its Crusade Global Trust number 2 of 2003, its sixth global mortgage-backed securities issue under the Crusade Securitisation Programme. The securities will be registered by ...

FSIU rates wholesale diversified funds

The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) today released its June quarter investment performance review (IPR) ratings for Australian diversified wholesale funds. Of the 116 growth, balanced, capital stable and capital guaranteed funds surveyed ...

Launch of new property fund

Capitalising on the strong performance of property assets in recent years, boutique property fund manager SAITeysMcMahon has announced the launch of a new composite property fund. The new fund will invest in both listed property trusts and direct or ...

John Stewart joins NAB board of directors

... the deputy chief executive of Barclays Bank where he had headed the group's Personal Financial Services operation and Barclay's Private Clients. He was also chief executive of Woolwich before it became part of the Barclay's Group in 2000.

Barclays boosts Adviser Services team

Barclays Global Investors Australia has strengthened its Adviser Services team by appointing Leah Waldie to the role of National Account Manager, it has announced. Reporting directly to Michael Ohlsson, Adviser Services' Director, Ms Waldie's primary ...

Three-year returns from pooled funds the worst since 1975: Mercer

The median balanced fund delivered a second consecutive year of negative returns, Mercer Investment Consulting confirmed today. Mercer also said the average annual median return was -0.6% over the three years to June 2003, the worst three-year stretch ...

Westpac signs up to social and environmental principles

Westpac Banking Corporation has joined nine leading banks from seven countries by adopting the "Equator Principles" - a voluntary set of guidelines that have been developed for managing social and environmental issues relating to the financing of development ...