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CommInsure and Zurich win insurance awards

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
CommInsure has won 'Life Insurance Company of the Year' award while Zurich Financial Services Australia won the 'Treasurer's Award for Good Governance and Practice' at the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards. The awards, in its ...

AMP Cap Equity Fund analyst departs, prompts 'sell'

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
Simon Fitzgerald, financials and listed property analyst for the AMP Capital Equity Fund, resigned from the fund manager earlier this week. A spokesperson for the fund manager noted that Fitzgerald, who had been with the company for over 10 years, intends ...

Govt is longevity insurer of last resort

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The debate in wealth management over the next few years will center on retirement security, particularly as the Government is the longevity insurer of the last resort, said outgoing ING Australia chief, Harry Stout. Speaking at a Financial Services ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, urges financial planners in Australia to expand their client base to Asia as the region's wealth continues to escalate. "I think Australian financial advisers are among the very best of the world," he said at an Association ...

Australia's funds industry lacks leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
Australia's funds industry might lead the world in terms of government policy, but is badly let down by its poor leadership, said Roger Urwin, global head of investment content at asset consultant Towers Watson. Urwin, speaking at the Fund Executives ...

Great Southern legal battle continues

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers are progressing with their legal campaign against Great Southern, filing with the Victorian Supreme Court further allegations through a class action against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme manager. Formerly a ...

Wealth mgmt earnings boost CBA results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Wealth management continues to be a significant contributor to Commonwealth Bank's profits, with the division posting double-digit earnings growth in the group's results released yesterday. For the full year ending June 30, the business reported cash ...

AUSCOAL goes live on Bluedoor

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Industry fund AUSCOAL Super has today gone live with its BluedoorTM web-based administration registry solution. AUSCOAL Super has replaced its suite of superannuation applications with the Bluedoor single technology framework. The creation of a single ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with key market indices all down heavily, oil dropping and only gold amongst key metals showing a rise. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...