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Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Trust Company is expanding its responsible entity (RE) business to attract mandates from international investors and in a separate move, is placing its financial planning arm under a strategic review. John Atkins, who took on the role of managing director ...

Supercorp buys MYOB super software

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Brisbane based, Supercorp Australia, has bought the superannuation software business from MYOB. MYOB supports hundreds of accounting firms across Australia in lodging statutory accounts for self managed super funds (SMSFs). Kurt Groeneveld, Supercorp ...

Seven deadly sins

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Lechery, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride - a leading investment expert highlights the seven sins that brought the market down to its knees. Rob Prugue, senior managing director of Lazard Asset Management and speaker at the CMSF yesterday ...

Myer considers a financial services division

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... what we're investing in is we're taking the investment that we make in the credit card and investing it in Myer One. "So ours is about investing to improve loyalty, rather than putting it on the bottom line. And that's one of the reasons our sales have ...

REST activates growth strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
The $13 billion REST Superannuation fund has made a radical change to its growth and defensive asset allocation split - jumping from 67/33 to today's 78/22 in less than 9 months. According to Damian Hill, chief executive of REST, the fund is increasingly ...

Acacia separates from Linear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Acacia Private Wealth has cut its licensing ties with Linear Financial Services to maintain its independent boutique structure. According to Elsa Cocco, Acacia Wealth adviser operations manager, said Acacia Private Wealth had gained its own license ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Home grown boutique fund managers Perennial Investment Partners and Hyperion Asset Management have become the latest Aussie signatories of the UN PRI. According to Perennial chief executive Anthony Patterson, the fund manager had taken an interest in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... but the market remains relatively negative. All eyes are on reporting season and the deterioration of the US economy, and ours." Rio Tinto surged $2.90 or 6.88 per cent to $45.05, while Fortescue Metals Group leapt 16 cents or 9.04 per cent to $1.93. ...

Future Fund posts 6pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The Federal Government's Future Fund suffered a 5.86 per cent loss for the quarter and reduced its $31 billion cash holding by 10 per cent, according to its latest portfolio update. For the first six months of the 2009/09 financial year, the fund lost ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume ...