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Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Perpetual appointed Ganesh Suntharam as joint head of firm's quantitative investments business. This announcement follows the appointment of Vasant Khilnani as Suntharam's co-head of quantitative investments. Both Suntharam and Khilnani were promoted ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Residential property investment is the highest performing asset class over the last 20 years according to latest research, and one way to access it is to buy into pooled residential property funds. Lee Hughes, analyst at property research specialist ...

Sun Hung Kai targets distressed financial firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Hong Kong-based Sun Hung Kai Financial has set up a recovery fund to take advantage of undervalued distressed global financial firms. The fund, which is restricted to "professional investors" and is not available locally, was developed after the group's ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...

US resi housing collapse hits CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The $296 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has suffered a 35 per cent write-down in the market value of its $15 billion residential housing portfolio. Latest figures from CalPERS' assessment of its housing portfolio showed ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
2008 is not 1929 and the world is not about to see the next Great Depression anytime soon, explained James Swanson, the chief investment strategist of US-based MFS Investment Management. Visiting Australia late last month, Swanson said the rounds of ...

Fees cause underperformance, not asset allocation: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
The latest research paper from APRA confirms that fees are the major difference in net returns between retail and not-for-profit super funds, not asset allocation or differences in account balances. The paper, Investment Performance, Asset Allocation ...

Weekly switching for BOC Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Corporate super fund BOC Super joins the growing list of super funds that are vastly improving their administration, with a new system that updates 'investment option' changes from monthly to weekly. In the past, BOC Super implements switches between ...

Omega recruits head of operations

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Omega Global Investors has appointed Andrew Dunlevie as its head of operations. Dunlevie will be responsible for developing and implementing operations strategy for the business, its product range and investment solutions. He joins Omega, which is partly ...