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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open higher after US stocks and metals prices gained overnight. At 0724 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 28 points higher at 4460. In economic news on Friday ...

S&P withdraws six ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Standard & Poor's has withdrawn the ratings on a MIR fund, a Legg Mason fund and four AMP Capital Investors funds at the request of fund managers. The ratings firm withdrew the 'four stars' rating on the MIR Australian Equities Fund Class A, an Australian ...

Van Eyk resigns as executive chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Stephen van Eyk, founding director of the company named after him, van Eyk Research, has resigned as executive chair. A statement from the firm said van Eyk resigned for personal reasons. He remains a significant shareholder in the company and will ...

BlackRock tops diversified funds review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
BlackRock Investment Management is the only fund manager to receive a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec in its diversified funds sector review. Deanne Fuller, investment analyst at Lonsec, said the fund manager's rating was upgraded from last ...

Macq prepares for longevity risk

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Australian investors who are dying for longevity-type products widely available in the US but not locally will soon see a raft of these products hit the shelves, with Macquarie Funds Group setting up an entire team purpose-built for this one product ...

How planners can cope with redundancy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Dealer group Financial Services Partners (FSP) partners with work/balance author Andrew May to publish a book that attempts to help planners cope with redundancy. The book comes at a time when planning firms are forced to make staff redundant as their ...

Eslake joins think-tank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Saul Eslake, former ANZ chief economist for 14 years, has joined the Gratton Institute as program director in the productivity growth division. The Gratton Institute is a new think-tank that is supported by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments ...

TGM wins Asset Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Tactical Global Management has been awarded a mandate to manage the $1.1 billion Asset Super's currency overlay for its international equities and alternatives portfolios. Asset Super had previously employed State Street Global Advisors to manage the ...

GESB looks to alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
The $7.5 billion Government Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) is opening its doors for the first time to unlisted property and other direct asset classes. The WA-based GESB is currently looking closely at unlisted property as a new asset class, said ...

Mercer Sentinel hires two

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Mercer Sentinel has made two consultant appointments to boost its operational and transactional services across the Asia Pacific. Pushkar Thakur has joined Mercer Sentinel in Sydney from Mercer's Retirement, Risk and Finance business where he specialised ...