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CFS FirstChoice expands investments options

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice bumps up its investment menu with eight 'defensive' investment options including infrastructure, income and 130/30. "This year, more defensive options have been added in response to a more volatile market including ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
The overreaction against short selling and securities lending need to calm down, said Greenwich Alternative Investments. "Short selling provides liquidity and allows you to make calls in both directions," said Ryan Pearson, Greenwich senior vice president ...

Securitor academy in the works

MICHAEL HOBBS REPORTING FROM THE CONFERENCE IN NEW ZEALAND  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Securitor is to set up a paraplanning academy and launch an online self assessment program to help advisers beef up on their finance knowledge and better answer the questions of clients uneasy about the state of the markets. Speaking at the Securitor ...

Gray to advise Brookvine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Former GMO strategist Jack Gray has joined alternative investment specialist, Brookvine, in a special advisory role. In January, Gray resigned from GMO as head of strategy to pursue academic projects and work with the United Nations High Commissioner ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Postmortem into what caused the sub-prime fiasco is pointing the finger at the investment banks, hedge funds and even the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors has been selected by UK-based Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to manage a $200 million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge ...

Governance before crisis

Corporate governance often comes into the spotlight following a crisis - a trap that super fund trustees should avoid at all costs, says a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday ...

Enron Part Two

A visiting US accounting academic has called for a re-design of auditing practices to avoid public company frauds of Enron scale to happen again, in the wake of the sub-prime led market crisis. Professor Ira Solomon, from the University of Illinois ...

Govt creates super advisory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
The federal government has created a Superannuation Advisory Group to provide technical expertise and consultation on relevant proposals within the superannuation industry. The Superannuation Advisory Group met at Parliament House in Canberra for the ...

AMP posts 47pc growth in fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
AMP has announced solid full year cashflows for 2007, including a whopping 47 per cent growth in its financial services business, which includes the firm's retail and wholesale superannuation divisions. AMP's underlying profit increased 10 per cent ...