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Sentry and Epic forge alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
Sentry Group and Epic Adviser Solutions will join forces from the beginning of July to operate under the Sentry Group Australia banner. Under an agreement signed between Sentry Group and Questus Capital Group, the parent of Epic, the two groups will ...

Skandia parts ways with Mercer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
Skandia has bowed to the inevitable and replaced Mercer Investment Consulting with in-house consultancy Intech as its portfolio construction adviser from next month, ending uncertainty over where the two companies sat within the business. Speculation ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

State Street Global Advisors' Global Index Plus strategy has attracted more than $10 billion in funds under management, clocking more than a billion each year since launch, as more super funds shift their money from 'vanilla' index portfolios to those ...

Inalytics wins first Aussie mandate

One of the largest fund managers in the country Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has appointed the local arm of London-based research consultancy group Inalytics to help analyse fund managers' investment skills within QIC's portfolios. "In a ...

Shorting no longer needs a tick: SEC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
In an historic decision, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday voted 5-0 to remove an almost 70-year-old rule that banned investors from shorting stocks while the price was still falling. The vote removed the so-called 'tick test' ...

Balanced funds tip towards alternatives

A new Deloitte survey on what asset classes a balanced fund typically invests in found falling demand for fixed interest and a marked shift towards alternative assets. The survey looked at asset allocations for balanced funds in 2002 and how they compare ...

Centro direct property funds grow assets

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
The Centro Direct Property Fund (DPF) and the Centro Direct Property Fund International (DPFI) have finalised a combined $950 million investment into the jointly owned Centro Retail Investment Trust (CRIT). CRIT is an unlisted Centro trust which owns ...

ASIC watching reverse mortgage materials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called on reverse mortgage brokers to ensure advertising and promotional material is clear and not likely to mislead after citing five cases of problematic marketing. With the reverse mortgage ...

Lander and de Pourbaix take out BlackRock CIMA Scholarship

Financial Facts' research manager Lukasz de Pourbaix and van Eyk's co-head of investment research Jerome Lander have taken out this year's BlackRock CIMA Scholarship for Retail Researchers. Announced each year at the 13th annual Rainmaker Information ...

Push button payment system at fundie fingertips

Seven years after InvestmentLink introduced a payment management system that became hugely popular with planners and dealer groups, the company is set to launch a similar product, this time for the fund managers and platforms. Called the Remuneration ...