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Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... "The later the renewal date, the higher the likelihood that the cover will be better," he said. MetLife head of institutional business, Michael Burke, said the dominant factor in calculating premiums is an individual fund's claims history. "Scale gives ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... price index contract gained six points to 5,158 points on a volume of 5,514 contracts at 1200 AEST. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said the market had been buoyed by the Reserve Bank's decision not to raise interest rates. "It's a ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... Management, designed purely to take an ownership stake in and support boutiques, distributing them solely within the institutional market. "It's Perennial all over again," said Macoun. "We will deliver an environment for top quality investment professionals ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... neutral, fixed income, currency, commodity and emerging market strategies. "When properly run by a large, global institutional asset manager, they have several benefits funds of funds can't provide," added Tisdale.

Rice Warner adds to team

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... and development, has joined the newly separated and renamed Sydney actuarial firm. Weatherhead will focus on the institutional side of the business, advising life company clients, master trusts and industry funds who have insurance components. Rice Warner ...

Pentacle adds more experience to the team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... for a well diversified property investment fund of funds targeting that sector as well as small and medium sized institutional wholesale investors. "Arthur will work with us to enhance awareness for Pentacle direct property funds, develop new products ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

... Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable alpha team will select ...

Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

... have to manage. But there will be some fine-tuning. First, the group has re-defined its target market down to large institutional funds with over $1 billion in assets. "It is the larger funds that can take on the sophistication of our best investment ...

B&B makes power play for utilities assets

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... its intention to roll their power assets into an operating power fund, which may remain unlisted and be offered to institutional investors. An announcement on plans for the fund is expected before the end of the year, according to a B&B spokesperson. ...

Three key internal appointments for INVESCO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... the INVESCO Universal Income Funds, the INVESCO Wholesale Japanese Equity Trust as well as a range of specialist institutional products. Sam Sorace will leave his position as sales manager for the southern states to take up the role of national retail ...