All Star Funds makes Top Ten Net Flows first time in survey

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Kate Mulligan, Managing Director of All Star Funds, has announced today that All Star Funds has achieved a Top 10 ranking in the net retail flows for the March 2011

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S&P Assigns Three-Star Rating To BT European Share Wholesale Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned its three-star rating to the BT European Share W fund, which is managed by MFS International (U.K.) Ltd. Relative performance has been good since

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ETF Landscape: Global Industry Highlights

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Deborah Fuhr, Managing Director and Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy at BlackRock, reports on the growth of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchanged Traded Products (ETPs) around the globe.

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Trustees and advisers making a mountain out of a collectables molehill

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Specialist self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) education and training provider, The SMSF Academy, says the industry is over-reacting to draft regulations being considered for collectable investments within SMSFs.   “Concerns have

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Threadneedle appointments to Emerging Markets Equities team

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Threadneedle, a leading international asset manager, has appointed two emerging market analysts as the company continues to expand its emerging markets capabilities. Georgina Hellyer has joined as an analyst for

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BNY Mellon Asset Management Names Alan Harden as CEO of Asia-Pacific

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BNY Mellon Asset Management Names Alan Harden as CEO of Asia-Pacific.  He will report to Curtis Arledge, vice chairman of BNY Mellon and chief executive officer of BNY Mellon’s Investment Management

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Australia lags the world in institutional uptake of ETFs

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Speaking yesterday at an ASX conference on Exchange Traded Funds, Deborah Fuhr, Managing Director of investment company BlackRock, said that while retail investors in Australia had embraced ETFs, institutional investors

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ACO Instrument Fund offers new opportunities for wholesale investors

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New Fund acquires first asset: Australia’s only Stradivarius violin The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) today announced the launch and the first acquisition of its brand new investment fund: a rare

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What’s next for commodities?

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Growing concern about the strength of global demand recently prompted big falls in the price of many commodities. How much have commodities dropped? It depends. Take silver, which has been

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Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey March 2011

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To get a closer insight into where SMSF trustees invest, Multiport regularly undertakes an analysis of our SMSF’s investments to look at the up to date asset allocation and investment

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