Pie Funds has appeared online at Goodreturns.co.nz this month, announcing the launch of a new Australasian Dividend Fund. The announcement has come at a time when investors are more cautious when dealing with the economy.

Pie Funds managing director, Mike Taylor, is not fazed by the current economic climate. He believes it provides investors with a chance to buy equities at favourable valuations.

In keeping with their past funds, the Australasian Dividend Fund will continue to largely invest within small companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Those companies of interest to Pie Funds will have ‘earnings sustainability, solid growth and a sustainable dividend distribution policy’.

Click here to read the full story, or for more information view www.piefunds.co.nz.

Tyndall Investment Management welcomes new Managing Director Peter Lynn to the helm.

With over 17 years’ experience in investment markets, and an interim role as chief for six months in 2007, Lynn has always been capable of doing the job. Three years on, he is better equipped to lead and to build on Tyndall’s excellent track record.

Making headlines already, Lynn appeared on 2 February on TVNZ’s NZI Business to share his thoughts with Corin Dann on the financial year ahead. The self-confessed maths-lover predicts 2010 will be pivotal in determining how investment markets will react over the next five years, and expects central banks to take the middle ground to help ease the pressure.

No rest for Lynn, he recently spoke to Goodreturns’ Jenha White regarding the future of Tyndall Investment for an article distributed on 5 February; Tyndall Looking To Add More Retail.

Peter’s appointment to Managing Director was also mentioned in New Zealand Asset magazine.  Find out more about Peter Lynn and his journey to the hot seat at Tyndall Investment in the business section of the New Zealand Herald , on goodreturns.co.nz and in the March Issue of NZ Management magazine talking to Reg Birchfield about his new job.

About Tyndall New Zealand

Tyndall, part of ASX-listed Suncorp-Metway Ltd, manages over $3.6 billion in investments for a range of clients, covering KiwiSaver schemes, retail investors, corporates, superannuation schemes, charities and group companies Vero, Asteron and Guardian Trust.

Good Returns features an article about the growth of the Brokers’ Independent Group and discusses Kevin Smee’s vision and how this developement is aimed at growing the whole industry.

In a statement he said: “One of the goals for BIG is to use our leverage as an industry body to promote more high-quality insurance advisory services,” Kevin says

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