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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market was down at noon, with energy and mining stocks lower on the back of falling oil and gold prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 45.1 points, or 0.9 per cent to 5014.9, while the broader All Ordinaries lost ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Investment consultants like to keep their performance numbers strictly for clients' eyes only but Frontier, which advises on $97 billion of superannuation assets, broke convention when it publicly revealed its results this year - the first time it's ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
A group of investors and asset consultants, sitting on a panel at an InAssociation infrastructure conference in Sydney on Wednesday, was asked to make a call on the future of the investment bank specialist funds model. They agreed it was over. The infrastructure ...

Third Link signs key fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
More than 15 'big brand' and boutique managers including BlackRock, Colonial First State and Perennial will form the first set of underlying fund managers to the Third Link Growth fund, a fund-of-fund designed to donate $1.5 million each year to charity. ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
The government moves to scrap Latin-like, 100-page product disclosure statements (PDSs) in favour of plain English four-page forms by creating a template to prove it can be done. Today Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law ...

VISSF turns 50

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
The Victorian Independent Schools Superannuation Fund (VISSF) is celebrating 50 years of providing financial retirement services to its members. VISSF was set up in 1958, long before superannuation became a standard employment requirement. It formed ...

Fidelity tops growth funds list: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
Standard & Poor's has upgraded Fidelity's Australian Equity Fund to five stars - making it the top rated manager for its growth capability. "The Australian equities - growth peer group comprises a good overall quality of managers, and most managers' ...

Perpetual to expand product line

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Perpetual is looking to roll out more income and structured products to meet growing adviser demand as it concludes its restructure next week. Damian Crowley, Perpetual general manager of adviser distribution, said although there had been legislation ...

Perennial boosts insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Boutique investment firm Perennial Investment Partners has appointed former Invesco portfolio manager Matthew Cahill as institutional sales manager. Prior to this position, Cahill worked at Invesco as portfolio manager in the economics, balanced and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong performance on Wall Street on Friday. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was up 54 points at 5,422. Today, the Australian Office of Financial ...