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Principal Global Investors has announced the appointment of former Schroder Investment Management head of sales and marketing, Alex Francois, as director of institutional...

Editorial

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

Funds management

UBS Global Asset Management (GAM) has been awarded the top prize in the property category in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Awards....

Financial planning

Absolute Capital has completed a management buyout of its minority shareholder Martplace (formerly AM Financial), and plans to take full control of the company by buying ...

Editorial

There is a lot of interest at the moment in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - also known as Individually Managed Accounts - and their imminent coming of age....

Financial planning

The Treasury Group has flagged the possibility of setting up a listed investment company to expand further into the financial services and boutique funds management secto...

Financial planning

InvestorWeb Research has dismissed two of its most senior managed fund analysts, David Wright and David Smythe, in what appear to be acrimonious circumstances....

Financial planning

BNP Paribas Asset Management has confirmed that it has already shed some staff and will possibly lose more in the wake of its decision today to sell off its Australian eq...

Financial planning

Accounting consolidator Stockford has invested in an online tool which will provide advisers using its master trust Web site with the latest news and information as sourc...

Financial planning

IOOF Investment Manager and its subsidiary Perennial will need to make significant investments in growing staff numbers and infrastructure if they want to establish thems...

Funds management

Building society IMB has continued its recent push into the wider financial services business with the development of a funds management division....

Financial planning

The asset management arm of the BT group will be re-branded in the coming months to Principal Global Investors (PGI) as part of the global integration of Principal and BT...

Financial planning

Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....

Funds management

If the three finalists in the property securities category of this FMOTY awards agree on anything, it is that the listed property sector is unlikely to emulate in 2002 th...

Financial planning

A Melbourne-based securities dealer is offering planning groups an equities tracking service for clients’ portfolios....

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