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Select looks to sign on six dealer groups

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
Select Asset Management is in talks with six dealer groups looking to use the firm's Customised Portfolio Solutions (CPS). Andrew Fairweather, chief executive of Select Asset Management, said the firm had around six to seven dealer groups in the discussion ...

AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
AXA Australia's financial planning recruitment drive in the UK and South Africa has slowed with the financial services firm adding only two planners from those countries in the past six months. The firm has promoted the opportunity to join its Australian ...

MLC adds eight debt managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
MLC has changed the way it manages debt securities in the MLC Horizon portfolios and its Diversified Debt fund, with eight investment managers winning new mandates but Bridgewater and BlackRock dropped from the line up. The new line up means MLC will ...

RARE wins $200m mandate from CFS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
RARE Infrastructure has won a $200 million global listed infrastructure mandate from Colonial First State. Matthew Dell, head of retail distribution at RARE Infrastructure, said the $200 million mandate was awarded following CFS' review of their global ...

Future Fund mulls Transurban investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
The Future Fund is considering an investment in toll-road operator Transurban and is in preliminary discussions with the Canadian pension funds that proposed to buy the infrastructure group in October. On October 27, the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Future Fund to grow investments team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
The Future Fund Management Agency will have a bigger investment team than it initially planned - jumping from 29 to around 40 staff by next year - as the cash-heavy fund scours the markets for more investment opportunities. Speaking at the Investment ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
'Twas another big night on Wall Street as the countdown to Thanksgiving Day begins. And the Fed would have it no other way. But first let's take a look at the hard data. Give thanks for Americans are again buying houses. US existing home sales jumped ...

UK platform assets rise 25 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
In a sign that UK investors could be more confident in the local equity market, one of the largest independent financial planning platforms in region has hit over $30 billion in assets under administration, rising by 25 per cent since the start of the ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Caution removes caution. Just as the G-20 announced their caution in removing the fiscal and monetary crutch until the global economy is walking on its own, the word 'cautiously' in the 'cautiously optimistic' is fast disappearing in many an investment ...

S&P rates AMP bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Standard & Poor's has given a 'four star' rating to the AMP Capital Corporate Bond fund. This rating means the AMP Capital Corporate Bond fund and Corporate Bond fund A are both rated four stars. The fund provides corporate bond exposure to investors ...