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Century replaces 452 Capital with Perennial

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Century Australia Investments (CYA) has appointed Perennial Value Management as the interim manager replacing 452 Capital for the firm's Australian equities portfolio. According to a press statement, CYA received proposals from various fund managers ...

S&P reinstates ratings on AMP funds

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has upgraded three AMP Capital Investors responsible investment leaders (RIL) funds to 'Three Stars' after they had been placed on hold in May due to concerns over high staff turnover. Following a subsequent review and ...

NGS Super and Cuesuper to merge

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
NGS Super and Cuesuper plan to merge, creating a $3.5 billion fund with 90,000 members by April next year. Anthony Rodwell-Ball, chief executive of NGS Super, said one of the most important considerations is that both funds have similar membership profiles ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Is this it? Is this the one? Is this the beginning of the end of uncertainty and the start of Wall Street's rebound to higher highs? Over the past oh so many months, we've seen strong daily rallies on Wall Street almost always followed by investors ...

Fuld me twice

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Almost two years after the failure of Lehman Brothers sent global markets into the tailspin that would eventually become the GFC, shamed former chairman and chief executive of the bank, Dick Fuld, fronted a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
A Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) case hearing concluded that just because a product is within a planning group's approved products list (APL) doesn't mean they have fulfilled their fiduciary duty - prompting top researchers to talk about the role ...

Spoilt for investment choice

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
When it comes to the number of investment options offered by super funds, Australians say 'less is more', research shows. More than half the 1,300 respondents in the survey by super fund legalsuper said the fund's menu of 11 investment options was "about ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
"Ben most people would turn you away I don't listen to a word they say They don't see you as I do I wish they would try to I'm sure they'd think again If they had a friend like Ben (a friend) like Ben (a friend) like Ben." -Michael Jackson Have no fear ...

Insto flows boost TRG results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Treasury Group Limited, which supports, distributes and invests in boutique fund management businesses, reported a near 36 per cent increase in normalised net profits yesterday, off the back of net inflows and improving markets. The company said normalised ...

AMP makes super reading easy

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
AMP has designed a personalised Member Benefits Report that helps engage its members by allowing them to better understand their superannuation. The report will be sent to all 280,000 AMP CustomSuper and SignatureSuper members across direct and planner ...