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AMP Cap maintains high tenancy rate

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
AMP Capital Investors have retained three major tenants for their Bridge Street building in Sydney, keeping the vacancy rate of the AMP Capital Wholesale Office fund more than four times lower than the Australian average. Baker & McKenzie, Bupa Australia ...

MLC appoints Bleakley as external director

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
MLC has appointed former ING Financial Planning and RetireInvest board member, David Bleakley, as external director to its advice & licences board. Bleakley has more than 30 years experience in wealth management and is a seasoned non-executive director. ...

Advisers to gain political insight

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... major political parties given it's an election year. This event comes after the AFA's GenXt Roadshow, which is designed to bridge the knowledge gap between new and experienced advisers. The last roadshow experienced a 29 per cent increase in attendance ...

MLC adds eight debt managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
MLC has changed the way it manages debt securities in the MLC Horizon portfolios and its Diversified Debt fund, with eight investment managers winning new mandates but Bridgewater and BlackRock dropped from the line up. The new line up means MLC will ...

Macquarie appoints Bridges exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Macquarie Adviser Services has appointed former Bridges Financial Services head of marketing, Fiona Mackenzie, as senior practice consultant. Mackenzie has worked as a business consultant at Shirlaws in Australia and New Zealand. She was also head of ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
The termination of the government guarantee on wholesale funding next month gives a strong signal that - as far as the Australian government is concerned - the financial crisis is over. But the move could pose new problems for financial services providers ...

Future Fund slashes cash for alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has halved its 30 per cent allocation to cash in three months - with alternative assets getting the biggest boost in allocation following the move. The Future Fund's allocation to cash in September stood at 31.6 per cent ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
A leading fixed income manager likens the market to a car careening into a frozen pond and fishtailing before steadying - except the car could still crash and is still on thin ice. Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at $10 billion-plus fund manager ...

Netwealth buys $700m FUA planning firm Bridgeport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Platform and financial services provider, netwealth, has bought national dealer group, Bridgeport Financial Services - marking the company's foray into owning planning practices directly. Bridgeport has offices in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra ...

AustralianSuper overhauls SRI mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
AustralianSuper has redefined its $270 million socially responsible investment (SRI) mandate with Perpetual Investments from a strict exclusion approach to a broader best-of-sector strategy. The changes, which occurred this month, mean AustralianSuper's ...