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UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...

ASIC cracks down on MIS scammer

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
ASIC has turned its attention on a managed investment scheme (MIS) operator, James Kentwell Lovell, who allegedly fleeced $7.9 million from 200 investors, including self-managed super funds. On 29 July 2009, ASIC obtained interim orders in the Supreme ...

AMP planners to use Lonsec and van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
AMP Financial Planning today announced van Eyk and Lonsec as its preferred independent research house partners. The announcement follows consultation with planners and a tender process. AMP Financial Planning managing director Michael Guggenheimer said ...

Platform money flows back into markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Colonial First State FirstChoice and MLC MasterKey, two of Australia's largest investment platforms, are experiencing inflows away from cash and into listed markets and other growth strategies. Brent Howells, head of product MasterKey at MLC, said the ...

Legal funds merge into Legalsuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Legalsuper has merged with two similar industry funds - the $140 million Victorian Bar Superannuation fund and the smaller Blake Dawson Partner's Superannuation Fund. The mergers bring legalsuper's total funds under management to over $1.1 billion ...

Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The sale of Aviva Australia to NAB raises questions on the future revenue flows of Aviva Investors Australia, the local fund management business excluded from the deal. Aviva Investors Australia, formerly Portfolio Partners, is one of the largest and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The RBA will release the minutes of its May board meeting. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry delivers his post budget speech to Australian Business Economists on "Contemporary Challenges in Fiscal Policy". ...

Financial Synergy hires CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... the company's operations as chief executive and will be based at the company's head office in Melbourne. Campbell replaces Ken Galbraith who has been with Financial Synergy for over 14 years and held the position of chief executive officer since February ...

Not your average Clark Kent

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
He doesn't fly or fight villains, but guides members through the superannuation maze - meet Media Super's latest mascot, Super Hero. The latest "member" of the $2.5 billion Media Super team has been designed to help members understand their investment ...