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EQT and Schroder get ratings upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
The EQT PIMCO Wholesale Diversified Fixed Interest fund was upgraded from four stars to five stars while Schroder Fixed Income fund's rating was also changed from three to four stars following a sector review by Standard & Poor's. The fixed interest ...

IML staff strategy gets nod from ratings firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... (IML) revamped staff retention strategy has paid off for the fund manager, resulting in a stable investment team and an upgrade from a ratings firm. In September last year, IML overhauled its staff retention strategy, revamping its investment team's ...

Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The life insurer who won the year's largest insurance mandate from a super fund, Tower Australia, has tapped the UK market's latest trends to boost its flagship Accelerate platform. Tower is unveilling its new Accelerated Protection platform - an improved ...

Dimensional wins Russell mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Russell Investments has selected Dimensional Fund Advisors to manage a 10 per cent mandate within the Russell Australian Shares Fund. Recently released research from Russell Investments reconfirmed that a mild bias to value shares in a core Australian ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... actual earnings. But unlike the second quarter reporting season when Meredith produced a rabbit out of the hat - a surprise upgrade when most walled up in the Street was pessimistic on earnings - her revised recommendation is well...ho hum. Meredith ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
It's earnings season on Wall Street once more. But it might be different this time. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq narrowly escaped a broadly down day during last night's trading - both ending 0.3 per cent higher - while the Dow slipped by 0.1 per cent ...

Supercorp set to launch superMate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... administration and consulting company The Super Group, Scott Marcellos, has been using SuperVisor II for 15 years and is set to upgrade his system to superMate as soon as the software is available. Trialling SuperMate, he said the software enables users ...

Tower to upgrade Accelerate platform

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Fresh from winning a $600 million insurance mandate from AustralianSuper, Tower is now improving its retail insurance offering with the October launch of its new Accelerated Protection platform. Tower is expected to unveil a revamped insurance product ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was over one per cent lower at noon on speculation that more evidence of improving company performance is needed to justify the recent run to a 12-month high. Investor sentiment turned negative after US stocks closed lower ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was over one per cent higher at noon, lead by oil and gold stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 51.7 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 4715.4 while the broader All Ordinaries rose 53 points, or 1.13 per cent ...