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Telstra appoints property and Aussie eq heads

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... follow the recent appointment of Jim Christensen as chief investment officer. Eliopoulos is the new head of Australian equities, and is being joined by Lee, in the role of head of property. Eliopoulos joins Australia's largest corporate super fund after ...

Australian Ethical taps global smart energy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
Fund manager Australian Ethical has repositioned its International Equities Trust to focus on global smart energy. The trust has always invested in renewable energy, recycling, efficient transport and other smart energy companies in previous years but ...

Tiger year ushers investors to China

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... Tiger-years however, investors should prepare for dramatic changes and even an impulsive and risky year ahead. "Those trading equities should get set to ride the wild tiger. The markets will be volatile with a surge in the first month followed by a decline ...

Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... Pension fund has selected European responsible investment house, GES Investment Services, to screen its fixed income and equities portfolios for tobacco and weapons criteria. The research mandate means GES will screen the fund's portfolios for companies ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Morry Waked, BlackRock's global chief investment officer of Scientific Active Equities and the head of the Australia SAE business, leaves the firm after more than 12 years for personal reasons. Waked has been with the firm since 1997 working in a number ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...

NZ Super axes AXA Rosenberg mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... billion) NZ Superannuation Fund has terminated the small-cap equity mandate, which AXA Rosenberg held since 2004, and the equities long-short mandate, which the fund manager won in 2006. NZ Super Fund's head of communications Paul Gregory declined to ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Mercer is advocating investors move their global equities allocation back to benchmark weight for now as investment markets start to look fair value. The firm's January 2010 Dynamic Asset Allocation Market Valuation and Review, which the firm prepares ...

Trio funds to be wound up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... proposed to be wound up," noted the letter. The five other funds involved are: Asttar Portfolio Services, Astarra Overseas Equities Pool, Asttar Wholesale Portfolio Service, ARP Growth Fund and Regional Land Property Fund. Set down dates for public examination ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
New research from CMC Markets found that the amount of money an investor would allocate to global equities depends on which generation they belong, and that day traders are less inclined to ask "experts" for stock advice. According to a survey of 500 ...