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Timbercorp growers favour consortium

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Timbercorp growers are welcoming talks with a recently formed consortium - TCGrowers - which is looking to buy the embattled agricultural group's forestry assets. According to an update yesterday on the TCGrowers website, the group had received very ...

Platypus calls for time out

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Platypus Capital Management is closing shop and liquidating two of its flagship products because the firm "is not at a viable size in the industry as it currently exists". According to an email by Chris Talbot, one of the partners of Platypus, the boutique ...

US planners prefer fee model: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
US based financial planners are favouring a fee based remuneration model and appreciating the role of education more, according to a survey. A Cerulli Associates and College for Financial Planning survey, found a shift away from commission based remuneration ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Pengana's Asian Equities Long Short fund gained 22.5 per cent, net of fees, in the year to June against its benchmark's loss of 6.1 per cent - proof that even in the worst of times, fund managers that make the smart calls can deliver. Not many fund ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
While the worst of the liquidity crisis seems to be behind us, one fund manager focuses on "quality" stocks even as latest market data shows that some investors are rotating out of the defensive sector too soon and too fast. Rob Gensler, portfolio manager ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Sales of Bud (Budweiser) would have picked up during the weekend's 4th of July holiday in the US. Half would have downed the 'Great American Lager' in celebration of the June quarter surge on the Street. The other half - those looking at the week's ...

First Super mulls Timbercorp rescue

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
First Super, the $1.5 billion industry super fund for the furniture, pulp, paper and timber industries, has entered a consortium with South Australia-based Penola Pulp Mill and the management of Timbercorp Forestry to discuss the acquisition of Timbercorp's ...

RBS restructures Aussie equities team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed a new head of equity capital markets (Australia) and named three new members to its Australian equities team. RBS has appointed David Goffage as head of equity capital markets Australia, replacing Patrick Broughton ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Super funds could do more than rely on their custodians to manage their investment data, with one tech firm highlighting the benefits of taking the job in-house, ahead of APRA's more extensive data collection later this year. Historically, super funds ...

Super SA slashes mgmt and admin fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
Super SA has rebranded its allocated pension option to become the Super SA Income Stream and reduced its overall investment management and administration fees. Super SA announced the change yesterday on its website. The option still retains eight investment ...