Threadneedle strengthens high yield team with two additional hires

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Threadneedle, a leading international asset manager, has appointed two high yield investment analysts as the company continues to strengthen its fixed income capabilities. Gareth Simmons and Jenny Wong will both

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Digging Deeper: Institutional ETF investment in Australia

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The Australian ETF market has gathered momentum over the last two years, gathering AUM across a range of products, investment styles and providers.   However unlike the US or Europe,

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A Short Morality Play – The Triway Super Case

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A recent decision of the AAT has highlighted certain basic rules when operating an SMSF. The facts of the case are very straightforward. A couple, at the urging of their

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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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East or West – Where to Invest?

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The two biggest economies in the world could hardly look more different at the moment. One is doing all it can to stimulate growth, while the other is trying to

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S&P Assigns Ratings To Various Sibling Funds For BT Platforms

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned ratings to various sibling funds managed by a range of fund managers. These sibling funds relate to headline funds available on BT platforms

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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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Still engaged? Let’s make the relationship permanent

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Leading  financial technology firm Decimal has called on superannuation fund trustees to re-think their long-term approach to the perennial issue of fund member engagement. “The superannuation industry has worked hard for

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Investor rights a welcome initiative

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Industry and planners back new benchmarks Centuria Property Funds has received overwhelming support from industry and financial planning groups following the introduction of a series of initiatives to increase the

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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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