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PGI fund placed on FirstChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Principal Global Investors' flagship property securities fund has been included in Colonial First State's platform, FirstChoice. Grant Forster, chief executive for Principal Global Investors Australian said the Principal Property Securities Fund has ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

Russell tops transition manager awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has been named the Transition Management Provider of the Year at the recent UK Pension Awards and won top rankings in the annual surveys conducted by PLANSPONSOR and Global Investor magazines. Russell was ranked "Best in Class" by ...

Plus Capital eyes offshore managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Third party marketer, Plus Capital, is in talks with three offshore alternative investment managers to provide Australian institutional investors with access to their strategies. Plus Capital represents offshore investment managers that don't have a ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Forestry group ITC banks on its prudent business model to ride the crisis facing the agribusiness sector after Timbercorp and Great Southern went into administration. Adam Redman, spokesperson at ITC, said the firm's key business is forestry, a key ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was weaker at noon on the back of a softer oil price, more capital raising announcements and the collapse of Australia's largest agricultural investment scheme manager. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 52.1 ...

Russell revamps structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has restructured along five global services lines that will work collaboratively with the firm's regional offices to deliver a better service to Australian based clients. The revised structure means Russell Investments will operate ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Tyndall's newest offering, the six-month old Tyndall Australian Share Income Fund, has won a place in three major platforms - signalling baby boomers' increasing appetite for income equity strategies. Craig Hobart, head of retail at Tyndall Investment ...

Great Southern falls into administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Agribusiness fund manager Great Southern has appointed administrators after its banks withdrew support for its ongoing restructuring program. The directors of Great Southern Limited and Great Southern Managers Australia Limited have appointed Martin ...

AMP posts strong super and risk flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
AMP recorded around $2 billion in net cashflows to the firm's superannuation and pension business last year and announced a focus on simpler, transparent products in the long term. AMP Financial Services' net cashflows were up $81 million in the first ...