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New Aus Ethical CIO aids expansion strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Australian Ethical appointed former nabCapital managing director, Martin Halloran as chief investment officer to assist in boosting its exposure to the structured credit market and its push into the institutional sector. Halloran replaces previous chief ...

AXA direct property assets tops $900m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
AXA has slashed its listed property trust allocation from 40 per cent to 7.5 per cent and diverted the funds to more than double its direct property assets to $942 million. The group's wholesale Australian property fund has amassed a direct property ...

CFA decorates Ambachtsheer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
The CFA Institute awarded Keith Ambachtsheer the James R. Vertin Award for his continued work in pension research. The award recognises research that remains relevant and continues to provide value to investment professionals. Ambachtsheer is a director ...

Omega recruits head of operations

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Omega Global Investors has appointed Andrew Dunlevie as its head of operations. Dunlevie will be responsible for developing and implementing operations strategy for the business, its product range and investment solutions. He joins Omega, which is partly ...

Finsia launches Career Portal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) takes another step towards addressing the country's talent drought when it launched a new service dedicated to those considering a career in financial services. Finsia has launched Career Portal ...

Trust MD resigns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Jonathan Sweeney, managing director of listed financial services group Trust has resigned for personal reasons. The Trust Board has called executive search firm Spencer Stuart to fill the role. Sweeney will leave the company once a successor has been ...

BNP Paribas responds to alpha demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
BNP Paribas Investment Partners launched another MFS Investment Management fund, the Concentrated Global Equity Trust, for its Australian and New Zealand wholesale investors. The fund invests in 20 to 35 companies that are selected from the most attractive ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Detect, deploy, execute - fund managers and super funds can now implement better real-time analytics and event management with Apama 4.0, a new complex event processing (CEP) platform. NASDAQ listed Progress Software Corporation recently deployed Progress ...

Commodities bull run won't wane: GMI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Investors have traditionally lumped commodities investing into the growth strategy basket - but maturity in the sector has seen the sector take on both growth and income yielding sheens. John Robinson, chairman of the $417 million ASX listed Global ...

Reserves okay and can be raised by fees: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
APRA dismisses claims that super choice means funds should no longer hold reserves for smoothing investment returns. Keith Chapman, executive general manager of APRA's Supervisory Support Division, speaking at the recent Meeting of Government Superannuation ...