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Aviva SMA attracts $10m in six weeks

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Aviva's separately managed account (SMA) has attracted nearly $10 million in financial planning client investment after six weeks. The Aviva SMA is available on more than 20 dealer groups and over 50 financial advisers have used the structure for client ...

VTP appoints two more directors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) has appointed Stuart Nisbett, a former top executive at ANZ and Rothschild, and John Vatovec, previously a fund manager at Lowy Family Group, as board members. The appointments come less than two ...

Advisers let down by MMs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Advisers have been let down by under performing multi-manager investments, putting pressure on advisers to rethink how they use their fund research. Robert McGregor, asset consultant to Astarra Funds told the AFA annual conference that "you can outsource ...

BNY Mellon opens for insto banking

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
BNY Mellon is set to give incumbent institutional banking providers a run for their money after its local arm officially opens for insto banking this month. Senator Nick Sherry, Assistant Treasurer, was at the Sydney launch of the group's new service ...

PM Capital readies for recovery

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
While many fund managers have been busy shedding staff, PM Capital has done the opposite, beefing up the group's senior ranks ahead of investors redeploying capital back into equities. The fund manager appointed former MMC Asset Management executive ...

Apostle adds Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn to suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
Apostle Asset Management has added US-based Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, a global core investment manager with a value bias, to its stable for local institutional clients. The New York-based relative value manager was founded in 1973 and manages more than ...

Health Super hires governance chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
The $7 billion industry super fund Health Super has appointed Gary McGrath to the role of chief governance officer. The position is a newly created one for the fund. McGrath will report directly to Health Super chief executive, Chris Clausen. Prior ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
More than 250,000 SMSFs can now more easily access SMAs after OneVue scored a major deal with BGL Financial Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Lonsec has reinstated HFA Asset Management's International Shares fund 'recommended' rating. The fund had been on 'fund watch' since January 20 because of "uncertainty surrounding the parent company, HFA Holdings". Those concerns have since been allayed ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later. Last week, Sybase ...