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Challenger scores well thanks to QIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... being limited to boutique managers. Challenger outsources its manager selection to QIC, and S&P regards their Australian equities multi-manager team highly. S&P said that the ratings were also based on QIC's solid investment processes. "QIC applies a ...

Back to BT for Putnam head of business

Putnam Investments, the group which manages approximately $6 billion in international equities funds for BT, has lost its head of Australian business who is heading back to BT. Martin Franc is jumping ship only months after he recruited Peter Walsh ...

Maple-Brown Abbott launches new Asian investment

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2006
... it hasn't affected our normal funds." He added, "We have no intention to change the mandate on our existing Australian equities fund." InvestorWeb's general manager managed investments, Angela Ashton, said the new fund is correctly labelled and could ...

Super funds keep tills ringing at Harris Alternatives

... founding fund managers' realisation that they needed to have an alternative investment strategy after losing money in equities during the '87 crash. The move proved highly successful with the Chicago-based firm returning an average annualised return ...

MLIM stands firm but S&P puts funds on hold

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
... clients and investors that it remains confident and committed to the Australian market, despite S&P placing its Australian equities funds on hold after the sudden departure of three key team members. MLIM said that with Mark Himpoo still at the helm ...

Key staff walk out on MLIM

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
Three of Merrill Lynch Investment Management's (MLIM) seven key Australian equities team members walked out yesterday, just two months after the announcement that BlackRock and Merrill Lynch would merge. Zenith today issued a statement announcing that ...

Multi-broker trading platform launched by Bourse Data

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... which broker they want to use for their online securities transactions. The platform, Bourse Trade, can already handle equities and options trades and by around mid-year it should be able to also handle futures and CFDs. Bourse Data also intends partnering ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Grange Securities is rebuilding its equities team with the appointment of a director to head the institutional equities team. Peter Talbot, formerly a director of Patersons, head of domestic equities sales at JP Morgan and before that at County NatWest/Saloman ...

Equities lead bull run in super savings: SelectingSuper

... Rainmaker/SelectingSuper shows investors are continuing to enjoy strong returns, particularly in Australian and global equities. In the year ending February 2006, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super superannuation fund indices for Australian Equities, Global ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
... although economists are unanimous in the expectation that interest rates will remain unchanged at 5.50 per cent. On the equities front Telstra's group managing director of public policy Phil Burgess speaks in Melbourne. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied ...