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Super marketing with grunt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
A YouTube ad, an email blast and an annual report that morphs with the member's age were among the winning entries at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Sydney last night. This year's awards, which recognises the most innovative or effective ...

AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
AXA Asia Pacific Holding appointed former Prudential Corporation Asia employee, Michael Bishop to regional chief executive AXA Asia Life. Prior to this appointment, Bishop worked as managing director at the Prudential Corporation Asia across the life ...

CalPERS to suffer 2.4 pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The $246 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System is expected to post losses of 2.4 per cent for the end of this financial year, an enviable performance if compared to the average 6.4 per cent loss of local super funds. Preliminary estimates ...

AFA searches for Rising Star

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The race to become this year's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Rising Star award winner is on again, but planners must go above and beyond the normal day to day activity to win, according to last year's award winner, Chris Browne. The annual ...

US pension fund to settle suit for $930m

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The largest public pension fund in the US fires a warning shot against companies with lousy corporate governance when it demanded a company it invests in to re-write its CG policy and pay a $930 million cheque for wrongful share trading. The $244 billion ...

MMC recruits McLaughlin and Frost

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
MMC Contrarian has appointed former Australian Wealth Management head of research, Justin McLaughlin, as chief investment officer and former Investors Mutual Limited portfolio manager, Paul Frost, as portfolio manager. This announcement follows the ...

Challenger JV opens EM infrastructure doors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Challenger Financial Services and global trading company Mitsui & Co have signed a joint venture agreement to develop an infrastructure focussed investment management business in Singapore and launch an emerging markets infrastructure fund. Mitsui & ...

CalPERS may lose $947 million

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) may lose nearly $950 million from its investments in US housing crash-victim LandSource. CalPERS invested $947 million in US property developer LandSource, which recently filed for bankruptcy ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Toyota's expected decision to start manufacturing hybrid engines in Australia will do more to address Australia's oil supply worries than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lecturing OPEC to increase production. During the weekend it was widely reported that ...

BNY Mellon to double corp trust share

The Australian subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon plans to increase its market share in providing corporate trust-related services from around 35 per cent to up to 70 per cent, following its recent acquisition of the remaining 50 per cent stake of ...