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Currency replaces fixed income

Currency investing could be the next big thing as more investors use foreign exchange managed funds as an alternative to fixed income funds. Morgan Stanley's London-based currency expert Alex Davey was in Australia this month to talk about the group's ...

Managed accounts expands asset mix

Managed accounts are no longer limited to providing a platform for domestic and international equities. MA providers will soon include term deposits, fixed interest products, structured products and agribusiness. Speaking at the Financial Standard forum ...

Intel eyes China tech

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... fund, which attracted 28 companies to its opening venture, has since been fully invested in local Chinese companies. Platform company Holdfast Online Technology and manufacturer Newauto Video Technology are the latest firms to sign on to Intel's China ...

MAN hedge fund gets top rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Recently launched hedge fund MAN RMF Dynamic has been awarded a "highly recommended" rating by Zenith Investment Partners - the only product to achieve the standard in the ratings house's hedge fund of fund scoreboard. The fund gives investors the opportunity ...

New appointments at AXA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... been with AXA for eight years and was most recently the national development manager - platforms. He was responsible for platform sales across AXA Aligned and IFA accounts and will bring over 25 years experience in the financial services industry to ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

... Pentafin was set up in 2001 by a group of fund manager executives who decided that the market needed a better administration platform built on new technologies. Since then, Pentafin has won contracts to provide IT system solutions for ING, Portfolio ...

Direct property shines in NFP funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Not-for-profit super funds have continued to outperform over the past year as a result of their high allocations to direct property, according to Rainmaker Information. "Our research has shown not-for-profit funds have increased their lead because of ...

MLC promotes state mgr

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
MLC has promoted James Meade to the role of general manager, practice management for MLC Advice Solutions. Meade will be responsible for the firm's practice development team nationally, which focuses on supporting financial planning businesses. Meade ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased a stake in the alternative equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The US is moving to an upgraded financial system regulatory model that should remind Australian wealth managers of the debate we had a decade ago during the Wallis Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat ...