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What a member wants

... a blanket rule on default funds is more along the lines of treating members as trust beneficiaries who are not very pro-active with their fund. The confusion around whether super funds should behave as traditional trusts or whether they should evolve ...

Instreet funds gain second platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Instreet's Reliance Commodities and Reliance Global Allocation fund have been added to the BT Wrap platform. Both funds are already available on the Macquarie Wrap platform. The Instreet Reliance Commodities fund received a 'recommended' rating and ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... Rainmaker Research of the top 50 actively managed global equities funds, found similar results with 27 or more than half of active global fund managers underperformed the MSCI World ex Australia index over a one year period. In addition, Rainmaker found ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) ASEAN Index - the first of its kind that represents the performance of Shari'ah-compliant companies in six of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ...

SmartStream appoints Walsh

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
SmartStream Technologies has appointed Mike Walsh as channel partners director to its Asia Pacific team. Walsh will be responsible for managing existing and recruiting new industry partners to assist in building on SmartStream's presence in the region. ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The $23 billion UniSuper is taking the corporate governance of its $1 billion investments in Asia to new heights - the fund is extending its proxy voting policy for shareholders to include ventures in the region. UniSuper has already commenced voting ...

BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... AQR Capital Management, dropping the fund manager's currency and country selection strategies. AQR historically provided active returns across currency management, country selection and stock selection for BTIM's international equity funds range. However ...

Fin Simplicity upgrades tech

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Financial Simplicity upgraded Portfolio Express to allow financial planners to tailor client portfolios fast and share model portfolios. The improved Portfolio Express allows planners to create client model portfolios or asset allocations and then print ...

IML signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... investment pool of assets. Tony Richard-Preston, IML senior investment manager, said the principles complement the firm's active long-term investment strategy. "[IML's] investment philosophy is based on the premise that a company's share price will eventually ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
Active currency risk manager The Cambridge Strategy has appointed Bob Colehan as managing director-portfolio management. Colehan will be responsible for G10 currencies. The Cambridge Strategy said this appointment acknowledges the critical importance ...