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Ambassador searches for additional FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Ambassador Funds Management Services is searching for another fund manager to represent in Australia, particularly in the global equities small cap market, after hiring an additional associate director. Peter Tiffin, director at Ambassador, said the ...

ETF Securities signs Taurus

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
ETF Securities has announced a mandate with Taurus Funds Management to provide the fund manager a platform to trade gold and other metals using exchange traded commodity (ETC) products. Taurus' flagship fund is a gold and precious metals fund. The fund ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
"Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it." How often have we heard this - and variation of this -- "wise saying" before? Many, many, many times. But for financial markets, remembering history on the second week of March 2010 has ...

Diversify risk, not assets

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
The best risk management tool any investor can have is a culture of awareness to diversify risk - not just assets, said one industry expert. Alison Tarditi, chief investment officer of the multi-billion dollar Australian Reward Investment Alliance ...

AXA revamps platform service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
AXA Australia is preparing to move its existing $14 billion platform business to an enhanced platform that uses DST Global Solutions' Bluedoor technology. AXA plans to move the firm's existing client book to DST's Wealth.net platform, which already ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Directionless...is the word that could be applied to equity markets as we head for the end of this week's trading. Global equities were of course taking their cue from the global trend-setter that is Wall Street. As at last night - after four days of ...

Praemium targets new SMA service

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Praemium is looking to "rebrand" its V-Wrap service in the coming months with improved services, and working on a separately managed account offering that gives investors exposure to asset classes outside equities. Speaking at the Praemium Business ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Bohh...ring! And I woke up early for this! There were some after-party celebrations to the bull market's one-year anniversary - but only just. Wall Street closed higher -- Dow up 0.03 per cent, S&P 500 up 0.5 per cent and Nasdaq up 0.8 per cent. As ...

AvSuper rolls out conservative growth option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
AvSuper has unveilled a new conservative growth investment option to especially service members approaching retirement or who are risk averse. The $1 billion-plus AvSuper last month announced the launch of the new option, which was introduced following ...

Verity and newfocus unveil marketing benchmarking study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Verity Financial Marketing and newfocus Research have launched a breakthrough study that will attempt to measure effectiveness of super fund marketing campaigns. The research has been designed by Bruce Stafford, former marketing manager at QIC and Hesta ...