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BlackRock appoints country head

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... Management Corporation (VFMC), Arter had an 18 year career at Goldman Sachs JB Were where he held positions including head of research, head of institutional equities, and management roles in strategy and proprietary trading. "The size and sophistication ...

Apostle partners with Dundas Global

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... Investors manages a single investment strategy, global equities, and uses a company focused approach, relying on their own research to buy into companies with no distinction made between emerging and established markets. "A great company can come from ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... in the app through the 'Breaking News' section when connected to wireless Internet. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and published in the print edition ...

CSSA: MySuper puts corporate super insurance at risk

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... assumes that an automatic transfer to a MySuper fund will not result in lost benefits." The CSSA has conducted its own research and found that 74% of members with balances over $1,000 have insurance cover within their fund, increasing to 81% of those ...

Research: Australian private banks fall behind

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
Australian private banks have fallen behind the UK in satisfaction levels, according to research from CoreData. A quarterly survey of 1,722 Australians with more than $1 million excluding residence and superannuation found that only 33.1% currently ...

Advisers use of ETFs on the rise

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Johnston, Investment Trends principal. Of the group (27%) of advisers who encountered problems with ETFs, lack of third party research (28%) and education (22%) were the most commonly cited issues. "We can see that the barriers are quite fragmented and ...

Super funds urged to disclose director and exec pay

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... relationships and the remuneration involved are clearly spelt out to members and publicly disclosed. "We know from APRA research that where directors of a super fund are also executives of a parent company that the members of that fund pay a high price ...

Northern Trust secures UK charity mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to provide investments and grants in order to support research, network formation and skills development. "As a newly created charity we were looking for a custodian that could demonstrate ...

Optimistic outlook for industry growth: Research

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
New research from AIA Australia, has revealed that advisers are overwhelmingly optimistic on the 12 month outlook for the industry, seeing the most growth coming from families and the self employed. The AIA Australia Adviser Partnership Survey of 1100 ...

Active risk under spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... persistent excess returns is necessary to address the diluted level of active risk pension funds are carrying. Recent research conducted by US headquartered manager Neuberger Berman found the second and third quartile of tracking error (around 400-700 ...