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New additions to Austock team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
Listed financial services firm Austock Group has recruited two new members to boost its equity team within its investment management division, Austock Asset Management. Stuart Larke, a former director and research analyst for Goldman Sachs JB Were has ...

Post sub-prime, ethics more crucial than ever: CFAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... ever Australian chairman of the CFA Institute and is chief investment officer of Perpetual Investments. This growth means charter holders have grown up with the industry here and now many hold very senior roles. "Our numbers might not be as large as ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Despite a 25 per cent drop in the MSCI Emerging Asia Index since last October, there's growing evidence that the region has de-coupled sufficiently from the US economy not to follow it into what could be a deeper recession than 2001. While exports and ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

Szondy joins Frontier

Gabriel Szondy has been appointed as a director to the board of Frontier Investment Consulting (Frontier). Szondy joins the board as the representative of one of Frontier's shareholders, AustralianSuper. His current positions include director at Care ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... said while their firm had not invested into many emerging market companies, it was still possible to invest under their charter. "If it is a company operating in a country of concern, we look at different aspects of it way before looking at the financials. ...

Charter Hall closes retail fund oversubscribed

More than 40 financial planning groups have signed up to the first retail offering of Charter Hall Group, a listed property funds and development company that started life managing wholesale capital only. The group's Umbrella fund raised a total of ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

Reinventing financial planning

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
More Australians will seek financial advice if the financial planning industry goes through a fundamental structural reform and gets rid of commission-driven fees. Chartered accountant Robert M.C. Brown has written a discussion paper debunking some ...

T-Charter has limitations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
Super funds must understand the T-Charter document regarding transition managers, although a positive step, fails to provide adequate standards to evaluate transition managers, according to Russell Investments. In October State Street, Barclays Global ...