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Canada plan in talks to buy Livingston

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has entered a consortium with private equity firm Sterling Partners to buy Livingston International Income Fund. According to Livingston's website, the firm - through its operating subsidiaries - is Canada's ...

Realindex hits $1 bn FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
Colonial First State index investment subsidiary, Realindex Investments, has tipped over the $1 billion funds under management mark in under a year and hired a portfolio manager. The firm, a partnership between Colonial First State and California-based ...

Aus Ethical opens property trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
Australian Ethical Investment has launched a new property trust, a fund that invests in energy efficient buildings with a minimum 5-Star Green Star rating. The trust, which was launched by Caroline Le Couteur, Greens MLA in Canberra, aims to provide ...

AXA tackles longevity risk with North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
AXA Australia is targeting investor longevity risk with plans to launch another North product that provides a guaranteed income stream next year. The product, still in development stage, provides the flexibility of an allocated pension, which keeps ...

Challenger annuities post record sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Challenger's Guaranteed Income Plan annuities product received a record $91 million in August alone as financial advisers look for ways to preserve client income in retirement. In addition, while financial advisers are also allocating client money to ...

Focus on dividend outcome: Insync

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Planners under pressure from clients to prioritise long-term income over capital growth should take note of a fresh strategy from new entrant Insync - a specialist global equities fund manager. Monik Kotecha, chief investment officer of the three-month ...

Simple advice at GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
WA-based super fund GESB has launched a free Simple Advice service to boost its financial planning services to its 310,000 members. Providing easy access to advice over the phone, Simple Advice enables GESB to improve the financial well-being of its ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Talk of the town. That's the RBA of course. At a time when other G-20 nations continue to debate the growth alphabet of their own recovery, Australia's central bank declared, 'no mas!' 'No mas' need for keeping interest rates at the emergency level ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket was almost one per cent higher at noon lead by strong commodity prices and US gains. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 42.4 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4615.7 while the broader All Ordinaries rose 40.6 points ...

Christmas comes early for job seekers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Investment professionals who lost their jobs last year can take some comfort in the fact that 14 per cent of Australian firms plan to take on more staff in the lead up to Christmas. Planners and fund managers who faced the axe this time last year due ...