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Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Super funds could do more than rely on their custodians to manage their investment data, with one tech firm highlighting the benefits of taking the job in-house, ahead of APRA's more extensive data collection later this year. Historically, super funds ...

Media Super names CIO

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
Media Super has appointed Jon Glass in the newly created role of chief investment officer. The appointment coincides with the fund's first year anniversary following the merger of JUST Super and Print Super in May last year. The fund continues on an ...

Ambassador gains $2.5bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
From a standing start four years ago, third party funds marketing and services group Ambassador now represents $2.5 billion of funds - proof that a financial crisis can slow but not stop institutional demand for high quality investment managers. Richard ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The UK regulator's proposal to ban commissions on investment advice fuels fresh debate on the future of the local financial planning industry, with experts divided on how far the industry has come and where the real problems lie. The Financial Services ...

UK planners face new advice regime

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The UK's financial services regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has proposed sweeping reforms to help consumers get 'independent advice', including an end to commission-based investment advice by 2012. The consultation paper on Retail ...

Super without worries

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
While you can't predict where the markets will be in the future, you can protect your retirement savings from their mood swings. AXA Australia couldn't have picked a better time when it launched a capital guarantee product, North, in late 2007. The ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
US-based hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management hopes its forecast 20 per cent plus returns, lower fees and new liquidity rules will appeal to local super funds allocating new money into alternative strategies. Hedge funds are a hard sell these ...

Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The sale of Aviva Australia to NAB raises questions on the future revenue flows of Aviva Investors Australia, the local fund management business excluded from the deal. Aviva Investors Australia, formerly Portfolio Partners, is one of the largest and ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Nicholas-Applegate closes Australian offices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The global downturn takes another victim after US-based fund manager Nicholas-Applegate said it is going to shut down its Australian offices tomorrow, with all client services to be re-directed back to its San Diego headquarters. Susan Hunter, the company's ...