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Intech taps ex-BT head of quant and two QIC staff

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... investment team. Matthew Tuxford has over eight years experience in the financial services industry and was previously at QIC (Research Analyst Implemented Equities), Towers Perrin (Financial Analyst) and Total Risk Management (Financial Analyst). Meanwhile ...

Super funds back biotech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... funds. To date, GBS has completed three investments in new therapy and neurological disease firm, Nuon Therapeutics; research and development firm, Elastagen and clinical developer, Peplin. Brigitte Smith, GBS managing director, said to attain more than ...

SRI funds need homework: Lonsec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Research and ratings firm Lonsec warns financial planners to take a closer look at socially responsible investment (SRI) fund screens and recognise their impact on fund performance. The Lonsec Australian and global equity SRI sector review found the ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Standard & Poor's is pulling out all the stops to cope with institutional demand, hiring five analysts to its local research division and creating an "out of cycle" ratings team to review new products. The ratings firm hired former Westpac Private Bank ...

Make or break for PE managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... capabilities as bank financing dries up and business confidence falls. Jane Welsh, Watson Wyatt global head of private markets research, said the time where private equity managers could generate strong returns regardless of their real skill is over. ...

More planners to use SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... their business, a survey shows. The findings came from the BlackRock SMA 2008 survey conducted in August this year with research collated from readers of Financial Standard's online daily newsletter. The survey also found that of those who do not offer ...

RIMES and MSCI Barra team up

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... benchmarks available on the RIMES platform, covering equities, fixed income, commodities, and Islamic indices. Meanwhile, the research, creation, updating, validation and delivery of the data files will be carried out by RIMES. All the required data ...

Storm ramps up HostPLUS media exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... and media exposure via its sponsorship of rugby league team, Melbourne Storm. In the latest S-Comm report, produced by research company Repucom, the Melbourne Storm jersey is the most valuable property across both the NRL and AFL, with more than $4.2 ...

Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... way just yet. "We think there's still a lot of leverage in the [equities] sector." The new company will be renamed CPG Research and Advisory.

Northward wins Golden Calf

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust in April this year. The fund's stock selection is based on fundamental stock research. "Building a long term performance based culture was one of the key reasons for the establishment of Northward. Needless to ...