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Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... also worked at YBA Kanoo, Gulf International Bank, Bankers Trust, ANZ McCaughan Securities and Citibank. Suntharam will focus on managing the firm's quantitative investment suite across market neutral, long short and long only funds while Khilnani will ...

KBC blocks water fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
KBC Asset Management's Global Water fund is closed to new money in Australia. Simon Padley, KBC Asset Management head of distribution, said the fund is not accepting new money because the Belgian based asset manager is reviewing some of the group's ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... integrating our financial planning and practice management software," said Guggenheimer. "It's one of the things we're doing to focus on the productivity side. By the 30th of June this year, we'll have over 80 per cent of our practice having made the ...

HSBC Premier business up 76 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Australian market...however, with a strong capital base, a diversified income stream and strong liquidity, we will continue to focus on serving our customers and position HSBC to benefit when economic conditions improve," said Stuart Davis, HSBC Australia ...

Mercer expands property and Aust eq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... under the leadership of Mercer's Asia Pacific head of manager research, Marianne Feeley. Meanwhile, Mercer has expanded its focus on real estate research, particularly in Asia. Mercer has appointed John Wills to the role of senior real estate researcher ...

GSJBW appoints co-CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... Co-Head structure remains an important one for the firm both locally and globally given the complexity of our business and our focus on serving client needs," said Fitzgerald.

Local funds hold firm on US equities

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... investment mandates at this time, including any international equities mandates. "We really need to remember that the primary focus of Australian superannuation funds is to provide a dignified retirement for our members - that's a long term gain, not ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global property securities fund manager, AMP Capital Redding Investors isn't changing its listed property strategies and continues to win mandates while the listed property sector continues to under-perform. Kim Redding, AMP Capital Redding Investors ...

XPLAN tops planners' list

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
XPLAN has been acknowledged as the tech provider of choice among financial planners for the fourth year running, according to the latest 2008 Investment Trends Planner Technology Report. XPLAN was ranked first among major planning applications including ...