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UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned its three-star 'new' rating to the UBS Property Securities Fund. The ratings house placed the fund 'On Hold' in October 2009 when its co-portfolio managers resigned and management was transitioned to the ...

MLC drops Challenger for Resolution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... Investments and reallocated the funds to Resolution Capital. The institution's decision affects the MLC Australian Property Securities fund and the MLC Horizon 2 Income fund. Challenger previously managed 25 per cent of the strategies. Resolution previous ...

Managed fund for charity pays dividends

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... to SVA each month. Fund flows picked up in October last year but have declined since April, mimicking the Australian Securities Exchange's rises and falls, he said. Cuffe said he promotes the fund to different company boards and small seminar groups ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... uptrend as the policy environment likely would remain steady in the near future. Auto makers dropped after the Shanghai Securities News reported that China's auto sales in July fell 6.7 per cent from the previous month to 1.06 million units. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers release their Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for July. TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their inflation gauge for July. In companies news, Crane Group Ltd and Argo Investments ...

Bennelong appoints Intech head as chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Intech Financial Services, director of Hopkins Partners Funds Management, and head of institutional broking with HSBC Securities Australia. He was also director of marketing with Colonial Investment Management. More recently, Loveday held general management ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... stabilise, going forward. This would further improve the financial health of banks and financial institutions still holding securities tied to mortgages tied to housing. All will be well. But did you notice anything strange about these positive extrapolations. ...

Structured prod issuers must disclose risks: ASIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... to clearly explain any counterparty risk and the limitations of the strategies to retail investors. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission's (ASIC) report, Review of disclosure for capital protected products and retail structured or derivative ...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney names new chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Bank declined to provide any more information on his new role. Comyn was previously managing director of Commonwealth Securities (CommSec). Parkinson takes on the role after managing the firm's Melbourne office, according to a spokesperson from Morgan ...

ASX appoints chief risk officer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has appointed Alan Bardwell as chief risk officer to enhance the firm's oversight over its clearinghouse and settlements business. Bardwell has worked at the ASX since December 2006 as chief financial officer ...