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AXA opens Singapore uni

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
AXA Group has opened the firm's Asia-Pacific university campus in Singapore to develop the employees skills across risk management, compliance, claims management and financial advice. The AXA University Asia Pacific Campus will partner with experts ...

Planning firm taps uni students

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
Financial planning firm, Blue Chip Wealth Management, is expanding its financial planner numbers by inviting university students to apply for a two-month unpaid internship at the firm. The Professional Investment Services (PIS) financial planning firm ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... final retirement benefits, new research show. Data compiled by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees and University of Sydney showed that industry, corporate and public service plans consistently outperformed for-profit retail funds by ...

Macq Funds adds two Aus eq analysts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... portfolios. Meanwhile, James Miller is joining Macquarie after completing his Masters of Applied Finance at Victoria University. He will be working with Kovacs as a fundamental research analyst. Macquarie Funds Management manages over $6.5 billion in ...

SMSF in-house asset rules and disclosure flawed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... detailed investment strategy. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Adelaide, University of NSW law academic Gordon Cooper welcomed news that the ATO would work closely with SMSF trustees on in-house asset ...

UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
UK based, Norwich Union is running a competition targeting university graduates to find the next generation of financial advisers. Norwich Union, soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... Australian banks are crucial to the economic recovery". Former Macquarie Group chief executive Allan Moss addresses Sydney University alumni on What's Going On In Financial Markets'. On Monday, the Australian share market closed flat after strong gains ...

SMSFs beat the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... S&P/ASX 100 over the same period, according to new research. Using Praemium data which contained around 4,500 funds, University of Adelaide professor, Ralf Zurbrugg, found SMSFs posted a gross loss of 11.6 per cent and a net loss of 13.7 per cent between ...

SPAA awards industry's best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... Superannuation Funds was awarded to Nathan Baker. Slattery said Baker was the top student in the SMSF course run by Adelaide University. Tracey Scotchbrook won the Praemium Scholarship for her work in SMSF advice and academic excellence. Scotchbrook ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night, saying that the S&P 500 would need to sink another 27 per cent to reach the average ...