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NCSF and Catholic Super to merge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
National Catholic Superannuation Fund (NCSF) and Catholic Super have joined forces to form a $3 billion super fund giant with more than 70,000 members. Both funds signed a heads of agreement to work towards a merger following months of discussions. ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Super funds should start reporting their performance based on how much income they can provide to members on retirement, not on how much they return in the intervening period when the savings are locked up, said a US-based retirement expert. Don Ezra ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The financial crisis could bridge the gap between diametrically opposed asset managers with more hedge funds merging with long-only funds to slash operational costs, predicts consultancy firm Accenture. Mark Halverson, global executive partner, wealth ...

Pinnacle to distribute Capital International

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management, the same firm that helped new boutique Solaris gather around $1 billion in mandates in one of the toughest periods for getting mandates, lands a deal to distribute US-based Capital International funds locally. The group ...

Inalytics to compare transition managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Research consultancy group Inalytics is set to build a giant database of transition events that will help super funds compare transition managers based on fees - a comparison tool that has caught the attention of major asset consultants. Inalytics scored ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Insurance underwriting will become less of a headache for financial planners after key insurers introduced automated underwriting into their products, a major leap from the days of error-prone rate books and simple quotation software. Only three years ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later. Last week, Sybase ...

Henderson Maxwell moves to managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Financial planner Sam Henderson discovered a decision he made 12 months ago to set up a managed accounts service for clients is paying off. Speaking at Financial Standard's managed accounts seminar early this month, Henderson said that using managed ...

Video me up, Scottie

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
It is not quite as revolutionary as teleporting but advances in video conferencing has now made it possible for fund managers to hold life-like video meetings, a major leap from the days of delayed broadcast, blurry video images and dropped-out calls. ...