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AIA signs record number of corporate funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
AIA Australia has won mandates from 40 small to medium size corporate super schemes in the last 12 months. Damien Green, chief executive of AIA Australia, said that the number of schemes that have contracted AIA for insurance offerings has risen dramatically. ...

Aviva offers direct SMAs, model portfolios

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Andrew Peterson, head of retail, said the Aviva Investors Direct SMA is different in that it feeds directly into an adviser's plan generation and client review process. "We believe that providing integrated, actively managed portfolios at a reasonable ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Blame it on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in America. Financial markets are running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of ...

Founder of GSAM quant group to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... are unaffected by the announcement. S&P noted that Jones' retirement is the culmination of an orderly three-year succession plan that saw him first step away from an active portfolio management role in 2007. He continued to serve as co-chief investment ...

BFG to integrate firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Southern Cross Equities and financial advisory firm Bell Potter will integrate into one brand from 1 July 2011, according to Bell Financial Group (BFG). BFG said that it would combine the two separate businesses to create a single retail, research ...

J.P.Morgan and ANZ complete migration

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services completes its migration of direct and master custody clients from ANZ Custodian Services, building its custody and administration services. The process, which started in November 2009, has raised the number ...

Shareholder activism at the Future Fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... been directly managing its voting rights for stakes in Australian companies, and had opposed 30 per cent of remuneration plan grants and 25 per cent of remuneration reports. In many respects, the fund owes its existance to Telstra, with cash proceeds ...

HIP appoints MLC as insurer, boosts cover

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
The $500 million-plus Health Industry Plan has appointed MLC as its group insurance provider and improved its insurance benefits for members. According to a letter from chairman Anthony Wallace, MLC's appointment coincides with increases in death cover ...

Centric Wealth gears up for acquisitions

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
Dealer group Centric Wealth's acquisition pipeline has more than quadrupled in the last five months, with more planners keen to join the group, thanks to big league M&As bubbling in the market. Mergers such as AMP and AXA's present rare opportunities ...

Asgard ramps up ETFs and direct equities strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
The newly-appointed head of Asgard, Craig Lawrenson, has mapped out a three-year business plan, including a more aggressive strategy towards providing direct equities, model portfolios and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to its platform. Lawrenson said ...