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CFS upgrades FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... new Record of Advice (RoA) tool with model portfolio implementation. These latest upgrades will be combined with a new corporate actions capability, the announcement of which Financial Standard reported in April. That feature allowed advisers to select ...

Certitude to distribute Columbia Credit fund in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
US investment manager Columbia Management Investment has partnered with Certitude Global Investments (Certitude) to bring its funds to the Australian market. The Columbia Management Credit fund, which has been seeded by a prominent family office, will ...

Perpetual to acquire The Trust Company

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... clients and staff." In a presentation to shareholders, Perpetual said the deal would provide complementary businesses to Corporate Trust, as well as economies of scale to Perpetual Private and Perpetual Investments. Funds under advice in Corporate Trust ...

Aussie instos hungry for EM debt assets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... and a further $80 billion in Asia. It offers access to the full spectrum of local and hard currency, investment grade corporate and sovereign bonds.

Super fund returns fall to 10.8%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... return - slightly exceeding inflation. Not-for-profit funds achieved 12 month returns of 11.1% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 10.1%. The segment gap is thus 1.0 percentage points, about half it's long term average level. The top ...

PIMCO lands former Deutsche Bank market maker

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... management firm PIMCO has appointed former Deutsche Bank director Ronie Ganguly as its new Asia credit/ emerging market corporate portfolio manager. He joined the firm on April 22 and will be based at the Singapore office. He will report to Rob Mead ...

NFP directors not engaged in fundraising

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... government dollars for NFPs drying up. "These days, more NFP organisations are having to fundraise from the community, corporate organisations, and philanthropic foundations. This area is becoming increasingly competitive and requires the involvement ...

Value in EM debt and bank loans for bond investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... view is that it makes sense to be overweight bank loans and emerging market debt while government and investment grade corporate bonds are riskier plays," he said. The credit expert pointed to the fundamental strength in countries from outside the G20. ...

APX given green light

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
The Government has approved variations to the Asia Pacific Exchange Limited (APX) market licence, integrity and operating rules and compensation arrangements, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten and the Parliamentary Secretary ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... countries it would have to do even more for more liquidity to be made available and especially for liquidity to reach corporate financing." Greece with its 27.2% unemployment rate and minus 0.2% inflation certainly needs a rate cut. So does Spain (26.3% ...