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Market wrap - midday

AAP | MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006

... there was not really a good lead off Wall Street, which was down but United Group had their profits out today and that was pretty good," Mr Betts said. "The reporting season so far has been reasonably good and the Nikkei is up quite strongly and we may ...

Staff churn at 452

KATE HAGE | FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006

... the agenda," he confirmed. "But if you look at the rest of the fund, Peter Morgan, Suellen Henry and Mary Feros are all pretty experienced campaigners and the people who left are more at the junior end," he said. Asked whether such departures could be ...

Active managing pays during market correction: Mercer

... quantitative services at Mercer Investment Consulting, said of the recent report, "Has there been a particular style that's done pretty well [over the period]? There's no distinctive pattern although of course, fund managers in the overseas shares category ...

MLIM funds on hold but Rock solid

... "Clearly when there's some change, the research houses will have to look at how those changes impact the funds. But we're pretty excited with the global small cap going forward." He explained, "We've now got a team of ten people whereas previously we ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN | WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006

... can and will be injured by some of the practices that make those private investors and companies profit. And that is a pretty profound conflict of interest," Greider explained. Being too passive had allowed some of the recent catastrophic corporate scandals ...

S&P downgrades CDOs after automotive default

... rise." "The biggest driver in ratings is the underlying health of corporate credit, and so far in the CDO market we saw pretty good performance reflecting the underlying market," she added.

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... growth over the last six years. The size of the market was $4 billion back in 1999 and it's about $18 billion now so that's pretty solid growth and a lot of that's been driven by both financial planners and stockbrokers doing more in this space," said ...

Lonsdale close to 110-planner target, adds risk specialists

... 110-strong network of financial planning practices in two to three years thanks to its recent spate of additions. "We're pretty close to 80 financial planner firms and there are about 174 advisers that use our services," said Lonsdale's chief executive ...

Let's get ethical: Hunter Hall

... Jack Lowenstein, Hunter Hall's deputy chairman and member of the investment team, credits their outperformance to some pretty good calls in the past three years including ramping up their weighting initially in the UK then in Japan and Korea. He also ...

INVESCO advances Australia flair

... trading strategies. In contrast, he concluded, "Something like us with low turnover and high alpha generation would stack up pretty well on an after-tax basis."

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Industry reacts to Mulino's sweeping reforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

From the advice sector to super funds, reactions to the sweeping reforms announced by the minister for financial services have been broad.

TAL names chief customer and health officer

VINNY VUCAGO

TAL has named a new chief customer and health officer, choosing to promote from within.

HESTA appoints new heads of risk and finance

ELIZA BAVIN

The $105 billion super fund has named a new head of risk and new head of finance, who will also serve as deputy chief financial officer.

MA Financial AUM surges 44% in 1H26

MATTHEW WAI

MA Financial Group posted a positive half year to 30 June 2026, with assets under management (AUM) increasing by 44% to $15.5 billion, attributed to significant activity levels in core real estate.

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