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Aviva offers pensioner relief after redemption freeze

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Aviva Australia has taken the extraordinary step to provide self-funded retirees and self managed super fund (SMSF) members on its Navigator platform their 'full' pension payments until the end of this year, when those payments would have been significantly ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... relating to funds with significant investments in mortgages. The funds affected are the Colonial First State Wholesale Income Fund, FirstChoice Wholesale Income option, FirstChoice Income option, Managed Investment Funds - Mortgage Income Fund, Bricks ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The fate of the country's $23 billion mortgage trust sector is in the hands of the more than 150,000 investors who now have to decide whether to stay put or bail out before more mortgage trusts freeze redemptions. The federal government's bank deposit ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... becomes a real loss [only] when members change from a higher-risk fund that has had a steep drop in yield to a fixed-income fund, because the [pension funds] then have to sell the instruments in order to move those members," it said. CPAA pointed out ...

Lonsec hires head of ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Ratings house Lonsec has appointed Paul Pavlidis as head of ratings - equity managed funds. Pavlidis will begin his role next January and will be responsible for coordinating Lonsec's research of global and Australian equity managed funds. He will lead ...

Zurich fund awarded S&P 'five stars'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Zurich Investments Equity Income Fund attained the highest Standard & Poor's rating of 'five stars'. The fund was previously rated 'four stars'. Christian Baylis, Standard & Poor's analyst, said the rating reflected the firm's belief that the investment ...

Four funds crossed off "On Hold" list

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... Global Alpha Fund, BGI Global Markets Fund, BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund, and Colonial First State Equity Income Fund, following a blanket "On Hold" rating for 57 products that the ratings firm believed would be affected by ASIC's ban on short ...

Retail fund FUM drops $12bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Funds under management (FUM) across the retail managed funds sector dropped almost $12 billion to $532 billion during the June quarter, with Australian Wealth Management (AWM), BT Financial Group and NAB/MLC posting the biggest losses. The Plan for ...

Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... cent net of fees in the last financial year. Meanwhile, Best Emerging Manager award winner, Kapstream Absolute Return Income Fund manager Kumar Palghat (previously head of portfolio management, Asia Pacific, for PIMCO Australia) said he kept his strategies ...

Raise your fixed income bet: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... credit securities. The firm's diversified income review resulted in van Eyk recommending investment across diversified income fund managers that emphasise capital protection and income enhancement strategies. Specifically, van Eyk identified fund managers ...