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Patron signs IOOF Pursuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... advisers." IOOF's Business Affinity Program (BAP) comprises a range of value-added services including technical, marketing, research and business optimisation support that can be customised to suit the dealer group's needs. "Independent Financial Advisers ...

UBS poised to enter local ETF market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
The local arm of UBS plans to launch its own range of exchange traded funds in Australia, as research mounts that more financial planners are allocating more client funds into ETFs. Ben Heap, managing director and head of Australia and New Zealand for ...

PAC merges with eQuant, names Greg Kirk as non-exec

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Roy Stapleton, eQuant is an established provider of executive search services for quantitative disciplines in funds, research, analytics & trading. "Through this partnership we will be able to offer cohesive and blended consulting to our clients in banking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Australian Industry Group will release its performance of manufacturing index for September. In equities news, Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan will address the Committee for Economic Development of Australia luncheon in Sydney. The ...

Super funds flex muscle on alternative asset fees

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... increasingly flexible when structuring fees for their alternative investments, said Ray King, director of Sovereign Investment Research. "There is a fair degree of flexibility in structuring different strategies to suit different fee targets. Some of ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... could before 1 October when the government's 40 per cent increase in tobacco tax takes effect. According to the Japan Research Institute, this frontloading would add 1.4 percentage points to the third quarter's annualised real GDP growth. Economist expects ...

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... Asian institutional investors into the domestic commercial property market. Kevin Stanley, executive director, global research and consulting at CB Richard Ellis, told Financial Standard that pension funds from Korea, Malaysia and Singapore had been ...

MLC nabs PM from Alliance Bernstein

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... Alliance Bernstein, and will be responsible for MLC's property and unlisted asset strategies. Keighran will undertake research into global and domestic listed and unlisted property, and infrastructure, with responsibility for selecting the managers across ...

BTIM adds PM to macro strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... manager to work with Joe Bracken, head of BT Investment Management's Macro Strategies. Petras will be responsible for research, develop and implement quantitative strategies for the flagship Global Macro fund. He worked as portfolio manager for US-based ...

Industry assoc review goals and growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... prompting industry professionals to question the need for multiple associations, and whether mergers should be on the cards. Research shows that there are more than 40 industry and professional associations, from large bodies to smaller ones such as ...