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Wells Capital wins EM mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Wells Capital Management, an investment arm of Wells Fargo & Company, has been selected by Japan-based Nomura Asset Management to manage the firm's $1.1 billion Emerging Markets Consumer Stock fund. Wells Capital Management is sub-advising the fund ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Oh boy! Wall Street is setting itself up for disappointment round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard ...

Prescriptive regulation is not the answer: Tanner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Future financial services regulation should be flexible to deal with new problems as they arise but not invasive or prescriptive, said Lindsay Tanner, minister for finance and deregulation. Speaking at the International Corporate Governance Network ...

Super assets to hit $2 trn by 2015: Deloitte

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Deloitte predicts assets under the superannuation industry to hit $2 trillion in under six years, with industry funds and SMSFs taking the lion's share of projected post-retirement assets. Deloitte's actuaries, using the firm's superannuation model ...

Australian Ethical sponsors art prize

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Are you the next Rembrandt or Andy Warhol? Australian Ethical is sponsoring the Australian Ethical Art Prize - a competition open to all artists. According to the Australian Ethical website, the fund manager is sponsoring an art competition which encourages ...

Financial Synergy hires CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Phillip Campbell has been appointed by the directors of Financial Synergy to head up the company's operations as chief executive and will be based at the company's head office in Melbourne. Campbell replaces Ken Galbraith who has been with Financial ...

S&P puts 12 CFS funds 'on hold'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed 12 Colonial First State's (CFS) small-cap growth funds 'On Hold'. The dramatic move follows the announcement that the small-caps lead portfolio manager Raaz Bhuyan is transferring across to the CFS's large-cap ...

New chair for ISPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
ISPT has appointed James Cain as an independent board appointed director and chair. The three year term, commencing 30 April 2009, follows the resignation of Carol Schwartz late last year. Cain has significance industry experience, gained operated M21 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following a positive lead from US and European stock markets. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 58 points at 3,639. In economic news on Wednesday, the ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Waiting...waiting. Americans and Australians are both in a holding pattern waiting for the passage of their respective government's latest fiscal dole-outs. Wall Street sat on the fence overnight as investors await the approval of US President Barack ...