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Vanguard on the hunt for new head of marketing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008

Vanguard is searching for a new head of marketing after Colin Bold leaves the company, citing personal reasons. Bold has been with the company for three years and saw the local index fund manager grow to a $60 billion-plus manager with the Future Fund ...

Lay-by age pension to plug savings gap

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008

Superannuation experts say it's time to adopt fresh thinking on how to supplement retirement savings and are calling on the government to support Lay-by style Age Pension and 'longevity insurance' products. A panel of industry experts from Mercer, PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

Choice members up 25pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008

The government's push to centralise SG contributions processing will benefit the growing number of Australians who exercised choice-of-fund, up 25 per cent in the September quarter compared to the same time last year. Superannuation admin provider SuperChoice ...

S&P downgrades UBS Equity Income to sell

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008

Research firm S&P has derated the UBS Australian Equity Income fund from three-stars to 'sell' after the fund's portfolio manager Paul Stanley resigned this week. S&P urged existing investors in the fund to get advice on switching or redeeming their ...

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008

One-stop shop financial services groups should be more vigilant about how they store and manage client accounts after a new report found that online criminals are getting better at exploiting stolen financial data. Security solutions provider Symantec ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008

One of the country's long-established value fund manager Anton Tagliaferro has urged the Federal Government to re-instate the shorting ban because short-selling threatens the ability of listed companies to raise much-needed equity capital in the next ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008

Web content manager Vignette predicts that social networking tailor-made for corporates will be the next platform on which financial services providers can engage their Gen Y staff and retain their customers. The power of social networking came to the ...

Term deposit with a twist

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008

Macquarie Funds Management hopes to cater to investors in two minds about the stockmarket through a structured product that is 90 per cent in term deposits and 10 per cent invested in Australian shares. Macquarie Funds' head of structure product Irene ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008

Sybase Australia has unveiled a new analytic appliance that can process data queries up to 100 times faster than existing databases, allowing traders and quant analysts to retrieve and analyse market information faster and cheaper than ever before. ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR | TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008

Fund manager First Quadrant returned 12 per cent in the three months to September by taking a contrarian view on how to exploit volatility in equities, debt and currency markets. The California-based manager, represented locally by Affiliated Managers ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:01PM

Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI | 11:30AM

The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:13PM

L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 11:50AM

Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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