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Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
A local industry body representing $450 billion of super fund assets comments on the likely impact of stricter governance of the US finance sector, following reports that the Obama administration will soon impose tighter rules on credit default swaps ...

New CEO for Russell

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... Subsequently, Schlifske will return to Russell's parent company, Northwestern Mutual, as planned. Doman will also join Russell's board of directors. Most recently, Doman was a founding director of McKinsey & Company Inc.'s UK-based European Asset Management ...

Free cash flow wins mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... the agreement [to distribute Epoch's product] back in December 2007. Since then there's been a lot of interest across the board, from institutional fund of funds to financial planners through their distribution network."

Sun Hung Kai targets distressed financial firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... fund. Paulson & Co's president is John Paulson and the firm recently appointed Alan Greenspan as a member of its advisory board. Rizal Wijano, Sun Hung Kai Fund Management managing director, said it is time to look at investments in the distressed financial ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... Scotland, had weighed heavily on the local bourse. "We've been hit quite hard in all our main sectors. It is right across the board," Mr Vaughan told AAP. "The stresses on the European financial market have flowed through into our financials and we saw ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... stock but sold out late last year, before the troubles at the firm emerged. This follows the Indian government sacking the board of Satyam Computer Services after the information technology provider's co-founder Ramalinga Raju was discovered cooking ...

Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... sector employee now receives $150,000 of cover for only $1.50 a week whatever the state of their health," said Super SA board presiding member, Hedley Bachmann. This latest upgrade follows two others that Super SA have made in recent years. Upgrades ...

AWM consolidates RSE licences

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Management's decision could affect the firm's product suite. "This is a significant trustee company change which results in a new board being placed in control of a number of platform products," he said. "While there would be no immediate impact for ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... mandate from one of the world's top 20 sovereign funds, the $43 billion Alaskan Permanent Fund Corporation. The trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on January 14, after axing its previous deal with UBS Global Managers. ...

Morgan Stanley and Citi to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Morgan Stanley and Citi are combining their resources to create the world's largest wealth manager boasting 20,000 financial advisors. Morgan Stanley and Citi announced yesterday that it would combine Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group ...