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Lonsec approves high income ETF

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
The Russell Investments High Dividend Australian Shares exchange traded fund (ETF) has been given an 'approved' rating by Lonsec. The firm's High Dividend Australian Shares ETF (RDV) is based on a Russell Australia High Dividend Index that favours blue ...

UK green and ethical fund hit $16bn

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
UK's green and ethical funds have surpassed $16 billion, four times the amount more than a decade ago. London-based Experts in Responsible Investment Solutions (EIRIS) found the ethical and green retail market represents around 750,000 investors, up ...

AUI hires BDM

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed John Andrews as business development manager for Queensland and Northern Territory. Andrews previously worked at RBS Morgans (previously ABN AMRO Morgans) for a decade across a number of roles including ...

Tech firm supercharges search engine marketing

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
Financial services institutions could attract more clients to their website and better track the performance of their marketing campaigns through the new services of a tech outfit, NetSuite. NetSuite's Ecommerce Cloud Platform has been improved to include ...

Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
The number of fund managers switching investment houses doubled in the last six months, S&P reported. Standard & Poor's found 15 senior portfolio management professionals, representing 320 years of collective experience, left their firms in the first ...

Snowball hires M&A exec

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Snowball Group has appointed a full time mergers and acquisitions executive manager to focus on the group's growth. Ashleigh Nelson was appointed to executive manager of strategy and mergers and acquisitions after working on a contract basis at the ...

Regal bags hedge fund award

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
Regal Funds Management has won the Best Asian Relative Value Fund Award at the annual Eurekahedge Asian ceremony in Singapore. Regal's Amazon Market Neutral fund aims to provide returns with low correlation to equity markets. "Regal has always sought ...

Lonsec names income sector's best

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Lonsec's Traditional Income Sector Review resulted in five funds receiving a 'highly recommended' rating, which include UBS Australian Bond fund, Vanguard Australian Fixed Interest fund and the EQT PIMCO Global Bond fund. The Schroder Fixed Income fund ...

Austock hires insto sales manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Austock Group has hired former MINC Financial Services stockbroker, Bruce Rolin, as co-head of institutional sales in its Sydney office. Rolin has more than 25 years experience in financial markets including long-standing directorships with Morgan Stanley ...

Man Group buys $27bn alternatives manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
London-based Man Group has bought one of the biggest alternative asset managers in the world, GLG Partners, which manages more than $27 billion in client funds. GLG provides 40 funds across equity, macro, emerging markets, credit and convertible bond ...