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Becton selects DSTi

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... its investment management division. The incorporation of the HiPortfolio Unit Pricing is expected to facilitate a more proactive management of unit pricing and best-practice market discipline. Becton's head of funds management, Matthew Chun, said that ...

Q Invest targets professionals

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... their complex financial affairs," said Q Invest general manager, Bill Danaher. "This service will give investors a very proactive ongoing relationship and the ability to talk with an adviser over a scope of different things," said Trudy Heins, manager ...

UniSuper chief Byrne move to ACSI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... superannuation body. She leaves UniSuper in early March, and played a pivotal role in positioning the fund as a vanguard in proactive corporate governance through voting and engagement. "The committee unanimously endorsed the appointment of Ann Byrne. ...

Market plunge drives record margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Margin lenders CommSec and St George Bank made record numbers of margin calls on Monday night and after yesterday's All Ordinaries 409 point drubbing, with another record in the making last night. CommSec managing director Matt Comyn, speaking late ...

ANZ appoints ex-MLC as FP chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
ANZ has appointed Alan Logan to general manager of financial planning, ending its search after Mike Goodall's departure three months ago. The financial planning division has increased its planner numbers by 30 per cent in two years and has more than ...

Legalsuper recovers a million in super

... he said, despite the million-dollar TV campaign showing people how to track their super themselves. The super fund's proactive stance has reaped rewards with some fund members getting cheque in the mail of lost super amounting to thousands of dollars ...

GESB trebles co-contributions after campaign

WA-based super fund GESB struck a winning formula after its 'Feed Your Super' campaign attracted three times more member co-contributions than it expected. The campaign is a fairly straightforward strategy where members are sent emails and snail mail ...

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

... when the country's peak business body, the Business Council of Australia, is calling on the government to adopt a more proactive policy approach in exporting services. According to the BCA's discussion paper titled 'Underserviced: Why Australia's Services ...

Investa property funds get SRI tick

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Investa Funds Management's (IFM) Diversified Office Fund and Commercial Property Fund are Australia's first property funds to receive the Ethical Investment Association's Sustainable Responsible Investment (SRI) certificate. The funds received the certification ...

BT beats Vanguard on tax: Aviva

BT Financial has pipped Vanguard to take the number one spot as the most tax-effective Australian equities fund, according to new research from platform group Aviva. This is the second year that Aviva has conducted the research analysing the tax-effectiveness ...