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Lazard scores $116m in QIC mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
QIC has appointed Lazard Asset Management to manage a $59.7 million Japanese equities mandate and a $57.6 million global equities mandate for the QIC International Equity Fund. The decision to replace current Japanese manager New Star with Lazard came ...

SimCorp appoints project manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
Software provider SimCorp has appointed a new project manager to oversee the implementation of SimCorp Dimension to customers. Based in Sydney, William Fraser will report to SimCorp Asia's customer director, Dennis Brandt. Fraser joins SimCorp from ...

Head of TOWER moves on after 13 months

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
After just 13 months in the role, the head of TOWER Investment Australia has stepped down to take up the reins at Professional Investment Services (PIS). The resignation of Grahame Evans, who has led TOWER for just over a year, became public last night. ...

QIC scores senior analyst

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
QIC has announced the appointment of a senior Australian equities research analyst to its global equities division. Stephen Kench will make the move to QIC in September, leaving his current role as a senior analyst in the diversified financial services ...

Fixed income not for everyone, yet: FIIG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
When it comes to implementing fixed interest strategies there are products and services for the big end of town and daylight second. This is a problem FIIG Securities is hoping to fix. Jim Stening, managing director of fixed income specialist FIIG Securities ...

Super changes to cripple self-employed in retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
The self-employed and business owners between 40 and 50 years of age have had their retirement plans hobbled by the Federal Government's proposed changes to super, according to Partners Superannuation Services. Director of Partners Superannuation Services ...

Small caps can keep on delivering: Pengana

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
Pengana's Emerging Companies Fund has delivered another quarter of outperformance, despite a decline in the benchmark and not being leveraged to the resources growth story, and the group sees no reason for that performance to fall off any time soon. ...

Another Elm associate banned by ASIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a financial adviser associated with the failed Elm Financial Services group for three years for his part in convincing a couple to invest $1 million in a failed product. Sydney adviser ...

ACSI praised for corporate governance campaign

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
The Australian Council for Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has been praised for its work in the area of corporate governance and president Michael O'Sullivan has been elected to the board of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). ACSI ...

Small cap funds not driven by skill: van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
According to van Eyk, the performance of small cap funds will be dictated by market conditions rather than the skill of the managers. New research by van Eyk into small cap managers has revealed most have large factor biases and, while they will outperform ...