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BGI welcomes fixed income chief

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has appointed the former head of credit portfolio management at Westpac Bank, Sean Carmody, to the role of head of fixed income in Australia. Prior to joining BGI, Carmody was responsible for managing Westpac Institutional ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) latest persistence scorecard for mutual funds in the US continues to show very few funds managed to consistently repeat top-half or top-quartile performance. According to the scorecard over the five years ending December 2006 ...

AMP Capital Investors appoints portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
AMP Capital Investors has announced the appointment of a new portfolio manager to the international and Future Directions Funds team. Sally Boone joins AMP Capital Investors from JANA Investment Advisors where she held a role with dual responsibility ...

French banking giant heads Down Under

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
CrA(C)dit Agricole Asset Management, part of the giant CrA(C)dit Agricole banking group, has opened a Sydney office to be headed up by ex-Skandia executive, Richard Borysiewicz. Borysiewicz said CAAM's primary focus would be on the institutional market ...

Equities the pick of the pack in 2007: Russell

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Equities will maintain their position as the best performing asset class in 2007 thanks to strong demand, attractive valuations and a benign macroeconomic backdrop, according to Russell Investment Management. Russell Investment Management has released ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has criticised the Federal Government's record on productivity citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase ...

New guardian for the Future Fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
The offices of the Federal Treasurer and the Minister For Finance and Administration have announced the appointment of John Paterson to the Future Fund board of guardians. Paterson fills the vacancy left by Robert Elstone, who was forced to resign from ...

ANZ to offer Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Over Fifty Group has just announced that it will begin piloting a reverse mortgage product with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). ANZ will begin offering Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages as soon as today in selected areas as part ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
There has been a slight lift in the seasonally adjusted number of total dwelling units commenced by 0.3 per cent over the period from June to September following the fall of 3 per cent during the previous quarter. New private sector house commencements ...

FUM climbs to $1.3 trillion trumping national debt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
Even though growth in Australian sourced funds under management (FUM) has slowed, it still reached $1.3 trillion at end September, enough to pay off our national debt and still leave us with plenty of spare change for Christmas. According to Rainmaker's ...