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Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... in the past nine months. The fund has secured mandates from the Future Fund, AvSuper, Canada's Corporate Pension Plan, Russell OpenWorld and van Eyk Blueprint. RARE has appointed Steve Williams to its retail distribution team in the newly created role ...

New benchmarks act like analysts

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... could one day put professional stock-pickers out of a job, the product's developer has said. Investment services firm Russell Investments has developed a series of portfolio construction tools with partner firm Axioma that take a standard index such ...

Low contrib caps slam brakes on SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... caps were less restrictive. Research by the SMSF Professional' Association of Australia Limited (SPAA), together with Russell Investments, found that around half of SMSF trustees would have contributed extra, on top of the limits allowed, to their SMSF ...

US dollar fund taps retail ETF potential

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... assets under management expected to grow from $4.4 billion to more than $6 billion this year, according to research from Russell. ETFs offer investors a greater variety of financial products with all the ease of putting a trade on the ASX through their ...

Russell fast track after-tax investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Russell Investments has flagged plans to release more products that will appeal to super funds focused on after-tax returns, not pre-tax performance. The Russell After-Tax Australian Shares Fund (for Superannuation Investors) applies both pre- and after-tax ...

Stangherlin joins Colonial

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... regional manager of Investment Sales for Queensland and New South Wales. Stangherlin joins the wealth management group from Russell Investments where she was the National Account Manager, responsible for enhancing the company's retail reputation among ...

Russell to launch insto ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
Russell Investments this year makes the leap towards providing exchange traded funds (ETFs) for institutional investors, at a time when more super funds are adopting new ways to manage their passive strategies. Russell will be channelling efforts into ...

Disability trust comes with caveat

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... paid into a disability trust, creating legacy that would enable financial independence for that disabled dependent," said Russell Collins, retired financial planner and current risk insurance trainer at Risk Insurance Communication Skills. "If it is ...

Fin services firms rally to aid Queensland

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... in flood affected areas. Fund managers are also pulling in their weight to help Queenslanders in need. Chris Corneil, Russell's chief executive of Australia and New Zealand said Russell's Charitable Giving Committee is matching all donations made by ...

MIR deputy MD joins Russell

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
Russell Investments has appointed the former deputy managing director of MIR Investment Management, Marian Carr, as independent director to its superannuation trustee board. Carr brings 30 years' industry experience and was previously also chief investment ...