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Grant Samuel signs US fixed income partner

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Payden & Rygel's managing principal Scott Weiner is in Australia this week as the partners conduct market testing with research houses, dealer groups and individual financial planners. While the fixed income product will mainly be targeted at institutional ...

Former Morningstar chief joins Sharesight

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... paperwork involved in a portfolio and provides easy to use income and CGT reporting." Bird was investments information and research business, Aspect Huntley, which Morningstar Inc acquired in 2006 when Bird became chief executive of Morningstar Australia ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Minister Keating. On appointing Russell yesterday to Secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in statement, "I am sure Dr Russell's experience and knowledge and his ability to relate ...

Retiree internet use hits 80 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... the internet age is that the web is for the young digitari while older Australians inhabit the analogue world. However, research contained in the 2011 Sensis Social Media Report reveals a fundamentally different picture. It found that 80 per cent of ...

S&P awards three stars to new Hunter Hall fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has assigned a three-star 'NEW' rating to the Hunter Hall Global Ethical Trust Hedged Fund. Hunter Hall's new Global Ethical Trust Hedged Fund provides investors with direct hedged exposure to the Hunter Hall Ethical Trust which ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... national accounts data. Gross domestic product (GDP) figures are released on Wednesday. GFT Forex director of currency research, Kathy Lien, said the Australian dollar had a poor night because of the weak economic figures. "The market is a little bit ...

Dropping home ownership rates leave retirement funding hole

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... assumptions of previous retirement affordability studies, REST Industry Super said yesterday. The worrying figures come from research tabled in the industry fund's Home Ownership and Superannuation White Paper, which is to be published in the August ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... the best interests of our members," said Dharmendra Dayabhai, head of portfolio analysis & implementation, UniSuper. Research submitted to the Cooper Super System Review by Gordon Mackenzie of the Australian School of Taxation and Business law at the ...

BTFG new head of prac mgmt

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... advice, BTFG. Additionally, Hall will be responsible for dealer services, technical support and the development of new research tools, para-planning and advice documentation and professional development. Hall's most recent role was head of operations ...

London hedge fund banking on Twitter

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... technology or data to be able to quantify human emotion. This is the fourth dimension," said Hawtin. The fund stems from research published by Johan Bollen, a professor of informatics at Indiana University, who demonstrated how the social networking ...