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Mercer hires former FTSE RI director

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Mercer has hired former FTSE Group director of responsible investment, Will Oulton, as European head of responsible investment. Oulton previously led the management and development of FTSE's responsible investment services including the FTSE4Good, FTSE ...

FPA appoints Rantall to top job

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed former Godfrey Pembroke managing director, Mark Rantall, as chief executive. Rantall worked at NAB-owned Godfrey Pembroke between 2003 and 2008 where he helped the dealer group transition more than ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... materials for the CDO known as ABACUS 2007-AC1 (ABACUS) all represented that the RMBS portfolio underlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management (ACA), a third party with expertise in analysing credit risk in RMBS. The SEC alleges that undisclosed in ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
IFSA has dismissed the APRA 'whole of fund' return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. ...

Merrill Lynch exec heads Macquarie Private Wealth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group has appointed former Merrill Lynch US Private Client Group managing director, Eric Schimpf, as the new head of Macquarie Private Wealth. Schimpf will head up MPW's 425 advisers providing advice services ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
A US-based study has found many US fund managers are churning their portfolio more often than they said they would - giving new evidence that short-termism is rife and long-termism is just lip service for many. The study found nearly two thirds of institutionally ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
QIC has developed new lifecycle investment solutions aimed at adjusting risk to complement existing investment strategies available to super funds. The lifecycle strategies will be used to adjust the risk faced by a member as he or she approaches retirement. ...

AMP raises Horizons intake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
AMP is increasing the intake to the Horizons Financial Planning Academy by 50 per cent to cope with demand. Tim Steele, director at AMP Horizons, said the bank is increasing the planner intake from 80 to 130 for the year. He said just under 200 financial ...