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GVI launches unhedged global industrial fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
International equities investment manager Global Value Investors has launched an unhedged version of its Global Industrial Share Fund (GISF). Head of investments at GVI, Roy Chen, said the new fund would provide greater choice for investors at both ...

All that glitters are gold ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
A surge in gold exchange traded fund (ETF) investment has ranked ETF Securities as one of the largest holders of gold bullion in the world. Nigel Phelan, head of sales in Australia and New Zealand at ETF Securities, said the gold ETF structure equates ...

AvSuper axes ME Bank mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
AvSuper has terminated a minor mandate with Members Equity Bank, after the fund trustee determined it was no longer in members' best interests to continue investing with the firm. AvSuper chief executive Michelle Griffiths said the $3.5 million mandate ...

AXA clarifies possible Wealth.net sale

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
AXA Research has sought to allay advisers' worries on NAB's possible divestment of Wealth.net by clarifying the bank is considering selling the North Wealth.net platform, not the North products and the guarantee attached to these. AXA Research said ...

Members call for investment choice

ASFA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
Around seven out of 10 Australians want to have investment choice in super, and more than half exercise it, new research from ASFA shows. Research released by ASFA shows that fund members are engaged with their super and has called on the Cooper Panel ...

Progress fast tracks bank fraud alert

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Progress Software has launched a new product that enables banks to be more 'operationally responsive" without the need for a major IT overhaul. This year, the firm launched the Progress Responsive Process Management Suite, which as it name suggests ...

Future Fund chair attacks RSPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
In an unprecedented intervention into the political war around the government's mining tax proposal, the chairman of the public sector Future Fund said the tax should be re-designed or scrapped. David Murray, Future Fund chairman, told Business Spectator ...

AXA and Wealth.net split poses planner risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
National Australia Bank stands to lose one of the most popular platforms among advisers if the bank decides to offload the North Wealth.net platform as part of its potential AXA buy. Advisers who use the Wealth.net platform have the highest level of ...

ETCs close to platform launch

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Exchange traded commodities (ETCs) could soon become available on investment platforms. Nigel Phelan, head of sales in Australia and New Zealand at ETF Securities, said the company is working with ratings firms to gain ratings and access to platforms. ...

APRA concedes on life ins data, slaps down friendlies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
After taking on and beating the super funds industry on public disclosure of fund level data, the regulator APRA has bowed to life insurance industry concerns and agreed to not disclose group wide performance metrics. In November 2009 APRA released ...