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Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... management and was the 12th largest fund management company. Today it manages $US 1.7 trillion worldwide and is now the largest mutual fund manager in the US." Duffield noted that Australia was Vanguard's first non-US venture, yet today the firm serves ...

Ipac awards $1bn in fixed interest mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
AXA-owned ipac has awarded a combined $1 billion-plus in fixed interest mandates to Morgan Stanley, Old Mutual Asset Management and Kapstream Capital. Jeff Rogers, chief investment officer of ipac, said the firm handed out around $800 million to Morgan ...

Adviser sentenced to 8yrs imprisonment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... Retirement Pty Ltd and N.F & J.M Dodd & Associates, citing "just and equitable grounds" or "insolvency" after the companies mutual director, Dodd, was investigated... The companies were liquidated. Dodd, permanently banned providing financial services ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concluded that a large algorithmic sell order in futures markets, executed by a mutual funds manager to hedge ETF exposure, was the root case of the volatility, which saw US markets drop nearly 9 per cent in a ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... Sweden and Belgium, all have entries in the top 100. With the exception of South Africa (boosted by 34th placed behemoth Old Mutual, who has a large presence in the UK) the US$568 million controlled by Australia's top managers exceeds the combined totals ...

Borysiewicz exits, Amundi names new chief

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... Global Advisors, where he was also head of consultant relations. This follows stints at Colonial First State, National Mutual and Towers Perrin. Meanwhile, Borysiewicz declined to comment other than to confirm he had left the firm when contacted this ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... the fragile state of the US economy, one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed plans to spin off one ...

Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... pension funds will have more pensioners than contributors, putting pressure on the reliability of cashflows and testing the mutual models of industry super funds. "History has shown that mutual models run out of gas sooner or later," he said, citing ...

Insto flows boost TRG results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... spite of its "outstanding investment performance against both competitors and benchmark", its largest product, Investors Mutual Limited, experienced outflows due to a weak retail market. The company added that the addition of new boutiques had an immediately ...

ClearView Wealth FUMA hits $3.1bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... life and wealth management solutions to its 2.9 million private health insurance customer base, including MBF, HBA and Mutual Community. The group also have 55 financial planners through its ComCorp and ClearView financial planning businesses and some ...