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MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
MetLife Insurance doubled its group risk premium inflows and group insurance market share in 2013, Plan For Life research found. The life insurer's group risk premium inflows jumped by 110% and went from $222.28 million in the year ended December 2012 ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Ho-hum. This is how I felt early Saturday morning (or was it afternoon?). No Virginia, it wasn't because I had one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco ...

Robeco fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Robeco Emerging Conservative Equity Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec. The Fund is an active, long only, quantitative emerging-markets equities strategy. It invests in listed equities in global emerging markets and the strategy ...

GSAM global bond fund receives Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from research and ratings provider Zenith. The Australian dollar-based strategy is designed to provide income and total return through exposure to a broadly diversified ...

Westpac appoints deputy CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
Westpac Group has created the role of deputy chief executive officer to address strategic issues such as the Financial System Inquiry and regulatory change. The current chief financial officer Phil Coffey will start in the new role of deputy chief executive ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a mainly positive lead from Wall Street as investors weighed improved unemployment claims data ahead of a key monthly jobs report. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
My, my... Crimea has just put a new twist in the turn of the Russia/Ukraine saga. Crimea's Parliament voted - unanimously if I may add - to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia (which it was part of it till 1954). The Crimeans will get their say in ...

SunSuper creates investment operations role

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
SunSuper has appointed Lounarda David to the newly created investment operations manager role. David will be responsible for managing and monitoring SunSuper's investments. She has more than 29 years' experience in the financial services industry, specialising ...

Insync Fund Management appoints senior analyst

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Insync Fund Management, an independently owned global equity manager based in Sydney, has appointed Nitesh Patel as a senior investment analyst and assistant portfolio manager. Patel works within Insync's flagship international equities fund, Global ...

Industry overestimates amount needed for retirement

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
The amount needed to fund the average retirement is much lower than the global pension industry currently estimates, research from Morningstar shows. Using US government data and a "fairly simple" market and mortality model, the investment researcher ...