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Ashton taps vulture funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Multi-manager outfit Ashton Advisors is using its partnership with top performing US-based fund manager Paulson & Co. to thrive and milk opportunities in the wake of the GFC. Ashton, which counts Paulson as one of its managers within its multi-manager ...

Capping fees is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... look at causation, then we look at solutions," he said. For example, rather than just focusing on the performance data of the top 50 or top 100 funds, Sherry said the APRA figures will also give the public an insight on the performance of the worst performers. ...

Sherry's to-do list for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Senator Nick Sherry yesterday unveilled his top priorities for 2009, which includes a strong focus on short selling regulation, margin loans and credit rating agencies. Speaking at a media function in Sydney last night, the minister for superannuation ...

Mandate to the Future

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... $63 billion portfolio as of December last year) at an industry briefing held in Melbourne last month. The debt market is on top of the fund's list. "We are starting to build up our debt portfolio. We see that of all the opportunities out there, the environment ...

Polaris buys SEEC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... clients in Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Polaris software has been used in Australia since 2000 across five of the top seven banks.

Securitor combats bad times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
One of Australia's top ten largest dealer groups, Securitor, is arming itself against poor markets by giving advisers more resources to serve their clients. Securitor, which has around $12 billion in advice and 462 advisers, is not just hammering home ...

Trustee survey reveals top asset classes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Infrastructure, private equity and commodities are going to be the most preferred asset classes this year, according to a trustee survey released this week. According to a Centre for Investor Education survey of 30 industry fund trustees and retirement ...

Patersons and Tolhurst join forces

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... support this transaction. The new, merged organisation will have more than 400 employees, 370,000 clients and will rank in the top 20 of Australian stockbrokers by the measure of market turnover, said Patersons. The expanded Patersons will continue to ...

Brookvine promotes Gray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... fund raising, located in Sydney and the UK, Brookvine is well placed to identify and raise capital for a select universe of top-tier alternative fund managers," he said. Gray joins Hall, managing director and chair Kerstin Sallows and chief operating ...

Communication top priority for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... maintaining trust and strong communication with clients who have been battered by the financial crisis. For Fox, one of his top priorities for this year is to help clients "avoid the media noise" and to remember that the goal for their investments is ...