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Scale a key issue in multi-management

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
More financial planners are taking funds management in-house, but a key fund manager predicts the multi-manager trend won't be a 'category killer' due to scale issues. Matt Mckinnon, general manager - retail sales Australian equities at Perpetual, acknowledged ...

ING Aussie eq fund gets three stars

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services assigns a three-star rating to the newly-launched ING Alpha Plus Australian Equity Fund. The fund is a long-only active manager that uses fundamental stock selection to construct a high-conviction portfolio. "Though the ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Another day, another flat, uneventful day on Wall Street. Reports out overnight were mostly positive but these did not stop profit-taking on The Street. Good news on the US jobs front... but not good enough. Initial claims for unemployment insurance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Friday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. Miners and energy stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil gained overnight. At 0806 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

ESI Super overhauls $800m Aus equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
ESI Super has terminated a major Australian equities mandate with QIC and appointed five new managers to the asset class following a restructure of its $800 million Australian equities portfolio. Balanced Equity Management which received $200 million ...

BTIM hires new portfolio manager, Swift departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
BT Investment Management (BTIM) completes the restructure of its multi-strategies business with the appointment of a new senior portfolio manager for the diversified funds while Robert Swift's role as head of multi-strategies has been made redundant. ...

Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
RBA no go. This is the financial markets' collective verdict following yesterday's surprisingly lower-than-expected Australian inflation figures. I don't know about you but is central banking and monetary policy really as simple as this? I remember ...

ESI Super and SPEC Super confirm merger

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
ESI Super and SPEC Super have agreed to merge and create a $3.4 billion fund. The merger was flagged in April this year and is expected to be completed by March next year. The decision follows Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Minter Ellison and KPMG completing ...

Custom Solutions flows double in June qtr

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
Flows to Commonwealth Bank's Custom Solutions platforms, which includes FirstWrap, more than doubled to $114 million during the June quarter. The bank's June quarter report found its Custom Solutions platforms attracted an extra $64 million during the ...

APRA proposals could deter overseas firms: AXA

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
AXA Asia Pacific chief executive, Andrew Penn, has warned regulatory proposals from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) could stifle Australia's potential to become a regional financial hub. Speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce ...