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FinLit Foundation launches into workplaces

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... and Flight Centre, one government business enterprise in Australia Post and four financial services groups in ANZ, CommBank, QIC and Westpac. "Financial literacy in the workforce is not a one size fits all initiative& Employers can combine financial ...

QIC finds value in IP

One of the largest fund managers in the country, the $55 billion Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has injected $30 million into an intellectual property fund, the first step towards the group's increasing investment in an emerging asset class ...

QIC cuts WestLB Mellon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
QIC has revised the manager line up for its Implemented Australian Equities Fund, terminating WestLB Mellon's long-short mandate. QIC said the review was part of a strategy to consolidate the number of managers to increase the individual allocations ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

... following the May 2003 budget, a decision that inspired QSuper and their investment consultant Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) to find an alternative. "Basically we said if we can't find a market, we will create a new one," said QIC's chief executive ...

There will be mistakes: eG Capital

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
... long-term and stable investment managers with a good track record and the requisite skills for their sector. Last month the QIC owned Queensland Biotechnology Fund took a 20 per cent position in eG Capital.

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... Ltd 147 National Australia Bank Group 150 Macquarie Bank Group 181 BT Financial Group 210 Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) 215 ANZ Banking Group Australia 269 Perpetual Ltd Australia 341 Maple-Brown Abbott Ltd 358 Perennial Investment Partners ...

QIC and eG Capital form strategic alliance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
QIC, through its Queensland Biotechnology Fund (QBF), has taken a 20 per cent position in the biotech specialist investment house eG Capital. eG Capital, otherwise known as Emerging Growth Capital Pty Ltd, is a full service financial advisory and brokerage ...

QIC merges its Aust and international teams

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
QIC will merge its Australian and international equities implemented teams into one division ahead of the departure of head of Australian implemented equities, Martin McComish. Greg Liddell, the current head of the international implemented equities ...

QIC hands global mandate to Altrinsic

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
QIC has awarded a $60 million global equity mandate to Altrinsic Global Advisers. The mandate to manage $60 million for the QIC International Equity Fund completes a recent QIC review of managers for the International Equity Fund, instigated with the ...