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Vanguard enters ETFs fray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia will go head to head with local exchange traded funds (ETFs) incumbents iShares and State Street when it launches three new ETFs on the ASX tomorrow. The group, which is already one of the largest providers of ETFs in ...

Vanguard expands sales team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Vanguard is on an expansion trail having appointed a Western Australian BDM and unveilling plans to open a Queensland office - a contrast to many other fund managers which are restructuring their teams. Eu-Jene Teng comes to Vanguard with over nine ...

Tasplan axes $280m State Street mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... in fixed interest and cash mandates with State Street and pumped a combined $275 million into Colonial First State and Vanguard. According to Neil Cassidy, general manager of Tasplan, State Street's $170 million fixed interest and $110 million cash mandates ...

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia has announced it will launch Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) for Australian investors. The Vanguard Group is already a leading manager of ETFs in the US. Vanguard entered the US ETF market in 2001 and at the end of 2008 ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... achieving that size," he said. A Dow Jones article has reported that likely buyers could be large asset managers such as Vanguard, which already has an ETF unit, or new entrants such as Pimco or Schwab. The question is how iShares will maintain its spot ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... years. Governance expert Regnan, a research outfit owned by eight major institutional investors including BT, VFMC and Vanguard, released a paper outlining how senior executives should be paid. In the paper, Regnan said that traditional executive remuneration ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... management will ensure you get the markets performance, which is likely to be moderate, at a lower cost." Robin Bowerman, Vanguard Investments Australia head of retail, said financial planners should focus on the long term and clients asset allocation. ...

CHAMP buys Centric Wealth

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Wealth has one of the lowest number of clients per advisor in the Australian financial planning industry and is in the vanguard of the sector with a fee for service model," said Centric Wealth, chief executive Michael Pillemer. David Jones, CHAMP managing ...

Morningstar awards top fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
In a year where only the fittest survived, seven fund managers including Schroders, Vanguard and Platinum proved they're on top of their game. Schroders took the top award, Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year 2008, in the annual awards event held in ...

OneAnswer adds six

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Australian Equities, Legg Mason Global Multi Sector Bond, RARE Infrastructure Value, T.Rowe Price Global Equity, and Vanguard Index Diversified Bond. "Privately funded infrastructre funds have increased in popularity worldwide, so we decided to add the ...