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Future fund appoints another private equity expert

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
The federal government's Future Fund has appointed Steve Byrom to investment director of private markets. Starting the role next week, Byrom will report to head of private markets Gary Gabriel. Byrom has more than 12 years experience in private equity ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
Alternative assets outperformance over equity and bonds over the last decade, especially in hard times, has pushed them to higher levels of popularity with institutional and high net worth investors, according to new research from Deutsche Bank alternatives ...

Volatility fails to dampen super returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
Recent volatility has failed to dent long-term superannuation returns, with five-year default fund average returns topping 12 per cent for the first time since funds started reporting monthly, according to the latest monthly SelectingSuper Default Option ...

MLC reduces SOA burden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
It's not quite wafer thin but MLC has reduced its Statement of Advice (SoA) templates by more than two-thirds shortly after the introduction of the 'Incorporation by Reference' legislation. The new law, which was introduced three months ago, mandated ...

Customer satisfaction is a measure of indifference

Bankers on a panel at a conference in Sydney last week were asked what value they got from customer satisfaction surveys, two of which had just been released. No one on the panel, which included National Australia Bank executive general manager of business ...

Australian Ethical Investments go global

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
Investors who want ethical investments with a global bent can avail of a new product that does exactly that after the Australian Ethical Investment launched its first internationally focused trust. The ethical fund manager already has an equities trust ...

Listed investment cos fund scoring well

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Centric Wealth subsidiary Specialised Private Capital is trumpeting the performance of its two year old geared fund which targets alpha exclusively through listed investment companies. Over the two years since inception, the Leveraged Investment Companies ...

B&B, Primelife form largest retirement fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
Primelife, Australia's largest retirement village provider, yesterday announced a joint venture with Babcock and Brown to create Australia's largest listed senior living specialist fund - Babcock & Brown Communities Group (BBC). Under the terms of the ...

QIC introduces magical management software

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
QIC's global fixed interest team has scored an Australian first by agreeing to implement BlackRock Solutions' Aladdin integrated trading, portfolio management and risk reporting system before the end of 2007. Aladdin currently processes over $4.5 trillion ...

Adelaide leverages a five-star rating

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Adelaide Bank's Leveraged Equities margin lending product has been awarded a five-star rating by CANNEX, putting it in a group of only four other margin lending products awarded a "superior value" rating by the agency. The award comes on top of a complete ...