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Neuberger Berman pledges money guarantee

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... money market fund making a claim has complied with the conditions. Neuberger Berman along with a huge slice of the parent company's asset management business was recently sold for $2.7 billion to private equity giants Bain Capital Partners and Hellman ...

Lonsec hires head of ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Ratings house Lonsec has appointed Paul Pavlidis as head of ratings - equity managed funds. Pavlidis will begin his role next January and will be responsible for coordinating Lonsec's research of global and Australian equity managed funds. He will lead ...

PIS creates NZ advice giant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... Robbie Bennetts, PIS chief executive, said the merger would create critical mass and economies of scale for the New Zealand company. "The merged groups will become New Zealand's largest financial advisory group and enters the market place at a critical ...

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... platforms to distribute their product, which will also be made available through financial planners and directly through the company. "Overall in a market that has had some volatile times, we're trying to reduce volatility by bringing property back to ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's chief executive Axel Miller, who promptly resigned after Dexia became the second Belgian bank to receive a multi-billion ...

Online drill for gold

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... investors can buy gold and silver bullions and have them delivered to a designated bank or location, or stored through the company's recommended security vault storage facilities. Alex Jamieson, goldsilverbullion.com.au chief executive and founder said ...

Fed to bail-out corporate paper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The Fed is extending the bail-out from banks to company corporate paper debt with its announcement last night to create a Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF). Under the arrangement, the Fed will begin repurchasing three-month unsecured commercial ...

AIG Australia to be retained

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... growth prospects. AIG will however consider bringing in minority shareholders. "Today's announcement is good news for our company, staff, business partners and importantly, over 20 million policyholders. The introduction of one or more minority investors ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million after first buying a 15 per cent stake in the company in 2005. InsuranceLine is one of Australia's fastest growing and largest distributor's of life insurance products with ...

Australian Unity focuses on wellbeing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... financial planning arm has been loss-making although group managing director Rohan Mead said the losses stem from the company's strategic decision to invest organically rather than make acquisitions to drive future business growth. But while the financial ...