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Macquarie EM infra index could become benchmark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Macquarie Research Equities launched Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure and Development Index (MEMIDI) could become an industry benchmark for monitoring the performance of emerging market infrastructure companies. The index, which is calculated ...

SMAs champion tax time efficiency

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Separately managed account (SMA) provider Direct Portfolio Services is axing brokerage for a limited time on all funds invested in its products to incentivise investors in the countdown towards the end of the financial year. Hoping to educate investors ...

IMAP gains Aviva muscle

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) is aiming to spread the platform reach of separately managed accounts (SMAs) with the appointment of Aviva manager of investment products, Peter Rowley, as an IMAP director. Rowley currently heads up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
The Australian share market remained weaker at noon, as sharply lower base metals, gold and oil prices deflated resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 28.6 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 5,680.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Perennial adds to smaller companies division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Perennial Value Management has appointed Andrew Smith to senior analyst of the firm's smaller companies division. Smith previously worked at small cap researcher, Linwar Securities, as head of research and prior to that, worked at Tyndall within its ...

Adviser goes to jail for $1.5m fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
Perth-based financial adviser Antonio Pisano of Maddington, was yesterday sentenced to four years and eight months imprisonment following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). According to ASIC, Pisano will ...

Credit Suisse AM names Giubin as Ince's successor

Credit Suisse has appointed Stephen Giubin as the new head of the group's local Asset Management operations and promoted Gailie McIntyre to deputy head. The duo succeeds Keith Ince, the former chief of Portfolio Partners, who joined the company in June ...

PRINT and JUST to form Media Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER are merging to form Media Super on 1 July - creating a fund with nearly $3 billion in assets. According to a joint statement, more than 110,000 members and 12,000 employers across the printing, media, entertainment and arts ...

Financial Ombudsman Service launched

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given the thumbs up to the establishment of a new Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS will represent the merger of the three biggest complaints schemes operating in the financial ...

From cash to prosperity: AFA

Financial planners will be given a helping hand at this year's Association of Financial Advisers' (AFA) national forum by some of the planning industry's best to set them on their paths to success. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA said this ...