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Zurich appoints Denning Pryce to manage new income fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Zurich Financial Services Australia has announced the appointment of a specialist derivatives manager for its new income fund. Denning Pryce, a Sydney based boutique manager specializing in listed equity and derivatives based funds management, has been ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
... Futures Exchange at 0733 AEST, the December share price index contract was down three points at 5246. Today, the market will focus on macroeconomic developments with Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens speaking to business economists while ...

Sunsuper takes message to the country

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
Sunsuper is focusing a re-marketing campaign on regional areas, providing retirement planning seminars throughout country Queensland and New South Wales in October. Sunsuper's chief executive officer, Don Luke, said it is important to provide information ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
... AEST, the December share price index contract was up 26 points at 5236. Today, market activity is expected to continue to focus on Telstra, after the federal government's launch yesterday of its prospectus for the sale of some of its remaining shares ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

ING appoints ex-MLC chief underwriter

... underwriter roles for Australian Eagle and Royal Insurance prior to MLC. "John has demonstrated a strong adviser and customer focus throughout his career and he will play a key role at ING in continuing to deliver a first class underwriting service," ...

Zurich appoints ex-CommInsure risk expert

Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed former CommInsure chief underwriter, Lindy Rule, as the new chief underwriter in the life risk division. Zurich Australia's head of life risk, Andrew McKee, said Rule's position fulfills an important ...

BT scores $100m Mercer mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Mercer Global Investments has awarded BT Financial Group a $100 million Australian equities mandate. The money is to be managed in an active, concentrated Australian equities portfolio and Martin Franc, BT head of sales, said the Mercer mandate is recognition ...

Financial Standard launches eFinancialCareers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Financial Standard has joined forces with the specialist financial services recruitment group eFinancialCareers to launch FinancialStandard.eFinancialCareers. eFinancialCareers is part of the Financial News group operating in the US, the UK and now ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey ...