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Aviva offers pensioner relief after redemption freeze

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... announced that investors, self-funded retirees and SMSF members who have Aviva products with holdings in funds that are affected by the current 'freeze' will still receive their regular income payments. Many of these clients would typically rely on redeeming ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... suspend applications, daily withdrawals and switches relating to funds with significant investments in mortgages. The funds affected are the Colonial First State Wholesale Income Fund, FirstChoice Wholesale Income option, FirstChoice Income option, Managed ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... reinsurance company that I'm aware of that hasn't had some impact from the depletion on their asset side... they've all been [affected] to a greater or lessen extent," said Mahoney. One of the direct flow on effects of this problem is capital shortage ...

S&P reinstates ratings for 18 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... strategies is a concern, and S&P continues to receive timely information in this regard." Scott said the remaining peer groups affected are the single and multimanager long/short funds. Further clarity from ASIC is needed around the lifting of the temporary ...

Australian Unity focuses on wellbeing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... retirement living and funds management businesses have all propped up the bottomline. "Like everyone else, we've been affected by adverse market conditions...but our products have continued to perform well despite the testing conditions," said Mead.

LGSS affected by shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... cent of LGSS' investment portfolio is allocated to hedge funds that employ shorting strategies, which has since been affected by the new ban of short-selling listed Australian equities. "It does have an impact on us in a number of ways. A lot of these ...

Four funds crossed off "On Hold" list

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... State Equity Income Fund, following a blanket "On Hold" rating for 57 products that the ratings firm believed would be affected by ASIC's ban on short selling. The decision was made after the ratings house gained "a level of comfort that the affected ...

Managers hit back on shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... restrictions. Crowley said that Perpetual did not receive any redemption requests on the back of its ratings suspension on the affected funds.

More than 50 funds 'on hold' after shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... mandates given the bans in place. The rating will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis with each manager, he said. All of the affected funds are contained within five peer groups of the Alternative Strategies Sector. Meanwhile, S&P has also expressed ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... billion securities lending program. No other companies whose shares are in the pension fund's public stock portfolio are affected, noted the statement. CalPERS launched its securities lending program in the early 1980s as an effort to earn additional ...