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Battle of the super brands

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Colonial First State, MLC, AMP and Industry Super Funds - how have they fared in their latest advertising blitz? According to brandmanagement, getting the right message to investors has opened opportunities for certain funds to win a massive new client ...

Perpetual buys Financial Pursuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Perpetual expands its private wealth arm when it bought Financial Pursuit, a Sydney-based planning firm with $200 million of funds under advice (FUA). The acquisition increases Perpetual Private Wealth's total funds under advice by three per cent to ...

NGS Super targets female fin lit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
NGS Super has revamped its website targeting women members as part of a financial literacy campaign. "There is naturally a strong focus on financial education, particularly for women, who make up about 70 per cent of membership. This starts right on ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Institutional investors looking for a buffer to their rapidly depleting portfolios are now paying attention to BT Investment Management's Absolute Return Currency Fund - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up ...

RARE quality found in infrastructure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
With billions of dollars in GFC stimulus money about to pour into infrastructure projects around the world, knowing how to find the best investment opportunities is crucial. Matt Dell, head of retail distribution for global listed infrastructure manager ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Peter Hall, the founder of $1.4 billion global equities fund manager Hunter Hall, started an investor presentation early this month with an apology for the group's "terrible performance" and set out a plan on how to recover last year's losses. "To start ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Financial planners should consider reversing the traditional approach to core-satellite investment strategy and adopt an "active" core and "passive" satellite tactic in bad markets, according to van Eyk. Stephen van Eyk, van Eyk Research managing director ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
The recently combined wealth unit of National Australia Bank is on the hunt for new boutique fund managers and top quality advisers following last week's merger announcement of MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest. Steve Tucker, the new head of the ...

CFS turns off the lights

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Lights out, please - Colonial First State is once again sponsoring Earth Hour as part of its commitment to being a sustainable company. CFS has been a key sponsor of the event since inception. As part of this year's Earth Hour exercise, the fund manager ...

FIX adoption critical to growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
More than 25 per cent of trade orders placed with brokers are still conducted through the old-fashioned telephone - a trend that will hamper operation and cost efficiencies in the long run, says an industry expert. Michael Corcoran, ITG head of sales ...