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Frontier to appoint CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
The board of Frontier Investment Consulting is looking to recruit a chief executive officer to work alongside current head Fiona Trafford-Walker as a means to redress the workload among the group's senior management team. Trafford-Walker said that Frontier's ...

Franklin Global Growth gets three-star rating

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... its desire for more time to assess the new team at the concentrated equity fund which was established in 2009 and has a focus on capital preservation, the ratings house said in a statement. Colonial First State fund CFS FC Inv-CFS W Generation Gl Share ...

VTP mulls management change

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Listed investment company Van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) plans to terminate its relationship with its external managers, van Eyk Research, Three pillars Portfolio Managers and VTP Management, subject to further board discussions. VTP formed an in-principle ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... ground. "We want to get on with ensuring that the legislation is passed through Parliament this year. The industry's key focus now is to sell the message... that the 12 per cent reform is once-in-a generation opportunity that will have positive and lasting ...

AMP Capital to recruit in infrastructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
AMP Capital Brookfield plans to bring new blood into its listed infrastructure team following the resignation of a portfolio manager and analyst. Manoj Patel, a co-portfolio manager, covering US pipelines and India, and analyst Ryan Foelske will both ...

A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
From an $18 billion asset consultancy in 2000 to the $100 billion behemoth today, Frontier Investment Consulting is all grown up - and it is finding new ways to deliver more value to its clients. This week Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Mercer invests in consulting business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... principles for responsible investment. Fuller's experience in the ESG field dovetails well with Mercer's own environmental focus, having recently launched a well-documented research report on climate change and its impact on strategic asset allocation. ...

Fund manager takes social media to next level

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... online multiple-choice questions about investing and can share their opinion on a weekly-basis about a specific investment focus each month. Bryden said that this gives any investors the chance to become familiar with potential investments the fund may ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... down 0.6 per cent for the year. LONDON - A resilient performance by Japanese shares helped stocks in Europe. Once again the focus of attention in the markets centred on Japan, which is trying to deal with the effects of last week's catastrophic earthquake ...

NIA changes name

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... Public Accountants in May after members voted on changes to the organisation, it said yesterday. The organisation would focus more on small and medium enterprises to reduce red tape, as a result of the vote. New resources to help the organisations 22,000 ...