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INQ buys HUB24 for $20 million

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... largest offering of SMA managers in the country, and offers users a combination of a wrap platform and a managed discretionary account service. Under the terms of the agreement, HUB24 shareholders will receive almost 267 million in new Investorfirst ...

Signposts to high yield

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... dividend yield, with the latest report showing a trend towards financial stocks with 48.3 per cent exposure, consumer discretionary, energy, materials and processing sectors. In fact, the index reconstitution added eight new high-yield stocks within ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... details of the report showed the increased spending was mainly on essentials (and higher petrol prices) and less on discretionary spending. Worse, Americans were only enticed to spend because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts ...

UBS to expand HNW adviser base

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... George Boubouras, head of investment strategy and consulting, UBS Wealth Management Australia, particularly in the discretionary fund management sector, he said, where in many cases private clients want to directly own all the underlying securities in ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... balance of power, because regardless which major party they support to form government, it is likely they will have a discretionary vote on all other legislation. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of peak superannuation group the Association of Superannuation ...

Insync targets consumer and healthcare stocks

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
High conviction fund manager Insync is investing in more consumer discretionary and healthcare stocks to deliver returns in the coming year. Monik Kotecha, chief investment officer at Insync Funds Management, said the fund manager is buying global companies ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... volume of 12,111 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said cyclical sectors such as financials, consumer discretionary and materials were hurting the most. "The leads from the US were weak last night with concerns reappearing about Europe," ...

Mercer appoints CIO in UK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... investment management of strategies that include exposure to alternative alpha. For purposes of classifying its discretionary multi-manager investment management capabilities, Mercer defines "alternative alpha" as including underlying investment strategies ...

Henderson Maxwell pours $100m into MAs

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... Maxwell to implement a new proposition to clients and advisers that was not achievable using traditional platforms - discretionary portfolio management and transparent fee structures with lower costs. "Implementation of portfolio changes and corporate ...

MIT tax regime modernised and simplified

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... investors. "I think the government recognised, finally, that there's a world of difference between an MIT and a family discretionary trust. [The latter] don't have that widely-held aspect and features of MITs so if you look at the tax rules, it's a real ...