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Macq Life upgrades risk products

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
Macquarie Life has improved the total and permanent disability (TPD) and disability income insurance features of its FutureWise and Super Protector risk products. The firm has increased the TPD maximum sum insured to $5 million for white collar professions. ...

... and hires three to fill research

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... financial institutions and has also designed and implemented financial models for asset-backed securities, according to a press statement. Before completing an MBA at Yale, he worked as a lawyer in acquisitions and investments for three years in Mexico ...

Equipsuper appoints two trustee directors

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Equipsuper has appointed two trustee directors following an employer director election. Andrew Pickering, executive director at Infrastructure Capital Group and Greg Hade, executive general manager, finance and business services at Loy Yang Power Management ...

Paragem targets practices with portfolio service

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
Paragem has launched its portfolio construction and implementation business and aims to attract 10 dealer groups to the service in 12 months. Implemented Portfolios provides a portfolio construction and implementation solution that allows advisers to ...

Mercer hires former FTSE RI director

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Mercer has hired former FTSE Group director of responsible investment, Will Oulton, as European head of responsible investment. Oulton previously led the management and development of FTSE's responsible investment services including the FTSE4Good, FTSE ...

Class Super accelerates member reports

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Self managed super fund (SMSF) administrators, accountants and trustees will be able to automate fund member reports after Class Financial Systems upgraded its technology. Richard Barber, chief executive at Class Financial, said many groups managing ...

AMP upgrades insurance

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
AMP has improved its risk insurance by launching a number of services to help advisers with the underwriting process. The group's trauma product has been upgraded, too. AMP's concierge service means financial advisers can contact the underwriter who ...

Tech aids capital markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Technology enhancements and changing attitudes to corporate responsibility could mean capital markets trading will become far more transparent, according to one software provider. Progress Software, which provides infrastructure to develop and deploy ...

Fidelity and Perennial top Aus eq review

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Fidelity Investments Australia and Perennial Investment Partners are the only fund managers to receive five star ratings from Standard & Poor's' Australian equities large-cap growth peer group review. The fund managers beat 12 other managers to top ...

CFS GAM hires AMP Capital ESG researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management has appointed former AMP Capital Investors researcher, Nick Edgerton, to the newly created role of manager of ESG Research and Engagement. Edgerton worked at AMP Capital Investors as an environmental, social ...