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QIC cuts WestLB Mellon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
QIC has revised the manager line up for its Implemented Australian Equities Fund, terminating WestLB Mellon's long-short mandate. QIC said the review was part of a strategy to consolidate the number of managers to increase the individual allocations ...

Challenger finds right address with QAS

Challenger Financial Services Group has bought QAS' QuickAddress address matching and verification solution, designed to maximise the accuracy and effectiveness of its customer databases while cutting costs. "We expect QuickAddress to have an immediate ...

BT setting a new course in alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
BT Financial has almost doubled its multi-manager alternative assets allocation and seeded a new AQR fund, which contributes uncorrelated alpha to the portfolio while reducing overall risk. Announcing the changes, Stewart Brentnall, head of BT's Investment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
The ANZ job series has fallen this month by 0.1 per cent after a large rise of 11.8 per cent last month, with the total number of advertisements in January 2007 21.8 per cent higher than a year ago. Newspaper advertisements which have been on the slide ...

CommSecure hires finance chief

Listed e-commerce solutions provider CommSecure Limited has appointed ex-OzEmail chief financial officer Richard Shaw as its company secretary and chief financial officer. Prior to CommSecure, Shaw was a CFO of high volume transactional companies namely ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
An unregistered managed investment scheme has been ordered into liquidation and its directors banned from carrying on a similar business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme ...

Go green, go dim

Switch off your electricity and save the world was the message from over 60 major finance companies that signed up to an initiative to cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie but on 31 March the Sydney building ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... points, or 0.01 per cent, at 2,463.77. LONDON - Britain's benchmark share index kicked off February with every stock out of the red amid a global stock market rally spurred by upbeat US economic data. The oil sector surged after positive earnings from ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

One of the longest property booms in Australian history will end by 2010, according to research house Managed Investment Assessments (MIA) based on its sector report polling the views of eight of the country's leading property fund managers. Colonial ...