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BT Financial frames big picture in 3D

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Financial services group BT Financial is hoping to appeal to consumers lovestruck with all things 3D, thanks to hit movie 'Avatar', with its new marketing campaign featuring 3D visuals starting this week. The "Bigger Picture" campaign, which started ...

Credit Suisse to focus on alternatives and EM

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Credit Suisse Investments Australia (Credit Suisse) will focus on alternative investments and emerging markets after it sold the bulk of its fund offerings - credit and property portfolios worth $1.8 billion - to fund manager Challenger. While Credit ...

Future Fund tops up alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The $66 billion Future Fund has grown its property, alternatives and infrastructure portfolios in the quarter to March - when it returned 2.8 per cent (ex-Telstra). According to a 31 March portfolio update, the fund increased its property exposure from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
The Australian share market has received a mostly positive lead from the offshore session, with Wall Street closing higher and oil and silver prices firmer. But gold and copper prices were weaker. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

ASIC charges ACR directors

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
The regulator has charged three former directors of Australian Capital Reserve (ACR) for forging financial statements. Samuel Pogson of Wahroonga; Murray Lapham of Turramurra and Steven Martin of West Pennant Hills, all from New South Wales, were charged ...

HOSTPLUS and ME drop Melbourne Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
HOSTPLUS and ME Bank have terminated their sponsorships with Melbourne Storm in the wake of the NRL scandal. David Elia, chief executive at HOSTPLUS, said the relationship with Melbourne Storm is untenable and has terminated its sponsorship immediately. ...

Wingate slams Everest governance, wants board out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Wingate Group wins a small victory in its campaign to oust the Everest board due to poor governance after Everest said it will not award an options package to its chief executive Jeremy Reid. The Everest board said Reid has elected not to take up the ...

AustralianSuper pours $200m into Northcape Capital

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
AustralianSuper has recently invested $200 million with specialist Australian small-caps fund manager Northcape Capital. This will bring AustralianSuper's weighting in small-caps to approximately 8.5 per cent of its Australian equities portfolio. Mark ...

SMSFs take up superMate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Supercorp Technology reported an 80 per cent take up of its superMate software among new users and confirmed that by February, over 2000 SMSFs were using the service. According to a press statement, the large take-up of the superMate software came from ...

HFA to re-open flagship fund

HFA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
HFA Asset Management is set to re-open its flagship $565 million Diversified Investments Fund to new investment as early as July this year - more than a year since it was forced to suspend redemptions due to the liquidity crisis. The decision to re-open ...