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Plum pickings in international equities: K2

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
K2 Asset Management's head of international strategy Nick Griffin believes that a maturing economic recovery will fuel earnings growth and higher international equity prices in 2011. Griffin said that equity valuations remain compelling, in both absolute ...

AvSuper awards mandate to IFP

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
AvSuper has dropped its mandate with Wellington International Management Company and awarded $52 million to Independent Franchise Partnership following a review. Michelle Griffiths, chief executive of the $1 billion-plus fund, said IFP replaces Wellington ...

Count Financial taps AMP for research exec

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Count Financial fills the void left by Rachel Griffith, its former senior executive in research and product, with a new appointment announced today. The group has named former AMP Financial Planning research manager, Brendan Irwin, as its senior executive ...

Coalition gives qualified support to reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
The Coalition isn't itching for a fight when it comes to the recently announced superannuation reforms, despite the Government's precarious grip on power under the hung parliament. In response to the reforms unveiled by the Government yesterday, the ...

Perpetual sees 8pc upside for ASX200

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
Perpetual sees the potential for an 8 per cent upside in the ASX200 next year. That might seem modest, but it would be above average, according to data stretching back more than a century. According to Perpetual, the average price return of the Australian ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
So much for Australia's vision of itself as a world financial centre as Oprah has shown that all the world wants from us is Kangaroos, Koalas, sunny beaches and iron ore. Or is that the wrong way to look at the frenzy now supposedly gripping the nation ...

AvSuper appoints Russell for admin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
The $1 billion-plus AvSuper has appointed Russell as its fund administrator - marking Russell's first mandate win for its new in-house administration model. Russell will replace Towers Watson, which outsourced its underlying administration to IBM SuperLife. ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

Opt in rules not up for debate

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
The hung parliament is all that stands in the way of controversial "opt in" requirements being adopted, if comments from a senior Treasury department official are anything to go by. Speaking at the FPA conference on the Gold Coast, Dr Richard Sandlant ...

UK edges closer to universal pension scheme

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will push ahead with plans to introduce a universal pension scheme in the UK. Chancellor George Osborne recently gave the green light for the establishment of the National Employment and Savings Trust ...