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Zurich adds new Aussie managers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... Aberdeen has been appointed to manage Australian fixed income and cash. "We have retained the core of an exceptional Fixed Interest and Tactical Asset Allocation team, while adding highly respected Australian managers, which we expect will enhance the ...

Risk awareness up, costs down: Aon

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... client research and development, said, "The role of the director and executive officer has become one of significant interest to all areas of the business community. The challenge for directors and executives, however, is to avoid becoming so risk averse ...

MLC switches $65b custody contract to NCS

After more than two decades of partnership with State Street, MLC has switched its $65 billion custody and administration services contract for the MLC MasterKey platform to National Custodian Services (NCS). "With a custody services provider located ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... contracts. This follows Thursday's trading during which the three indices lost over one per cent. US stocks fell overnight, as interest-rate concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's recent rally. The US market has been expecting ...

SMSF property lending of high Calliva

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... large contributions before the 30 June deadline, with a target of $100 million in settled loans by Christmas this year. "Interest in this new funding product has been intense, and even though it has just been announced, we expect to quickly get 20 transactions ...

Government offers industry the simple life

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Advisers will be able to offer simplified records of advice to clients investing less than $15,000, while businesses can post annual reports and new or revised product information online, under proposed new Simpler Regulatory System reforms. The bill ...

Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... appetite for risk. And while the consensus among optimistic economists has maintained that all is well on our inflation and interest rate fronts, the report issued yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is less optimistic. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... points to 6279.1 while the all ordinaries index dumped 70.4 points to 6298.6. NEW YORK - US stocks fell overnight, as interest-rate concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's recent rally. News that sales of new homes climbed at ...

Implemented consultants not performing: Counterpoint

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... difference of 70 basis points across one to five years. Figures for the Australian listed property sector and local fixed interest markets matched single manger performance, but underperformed in some years. The report casts doubt on the implemented ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... said the Australian dollar had opened higher on the back of news overnight that UK's central bank had considered raising interest rates. The release of minutes from the Bank of England's board meeting earlier this month weakened the US dollar, which ...