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More info on super, please

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Current economic events and the best super tax strategies are two of the top issues super fund members want to know more about, according to one industry fund. The $3.2 billion CSRF recently surveyed its newsletter readers, and noted that super tax ...

Russell signs UN PRI

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Russell Investments has become a signatory of the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). "Russell became a UN PRI signatory in recognition of the increasingly widespread client demand for strategic advice and solutions that ...

UniSuper appoints key advice execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
UniSuper appointed Jason Holandsjo as manager of operations & product and Alex Aracas as national practice manager in the super fund's financial advice department. Holandsjo joins UniSuper from Australian Unity Personal Finance Services where he worked ...

GIC eyes US and European investments

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The $120 billion Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is expanding its investment scope, appointing a company president based in America and also Europe. Lim Chow Kiat was appointed president of the corporation's European office based ...

Asian equities approach fair value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Financial planners may want to reassess their clients allocation to Asia's emerging markets as one investment specialist reckons Asian equities are no longer cheap. Stuart James, senior investment specialist at Aberdeen Asset Management, said Asia's ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
After the GFC challenged the prevailing wisdom on how low markets can go, AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton tells investors how to protect their savings from another market armaggedon. When it comes to investing, Dutton said there are two golden ...

Super funds to take the reins off bond managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Fixed income mandates will no longer be as prescriptive as they used to be as more super funds give bond managers more leeway to invest outside traditional benchmarks. Peter Dorrian, vice president and head of remarketing at PIMCO Australia and New ...

Integrity wins $190m United mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
United Funds Management has awarded Integrity Investment Management with a $190 million Australian equities mandate following the termination of its deal with MIR. Australian Wealth Management-owned UFM, which had $6.1 billion in funds under management ...

ING appoints life risk sales BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
ING Australia appointed Gerard Hayes as business development manager - life risk in Western Australia. Hayes has more then a decade of financial services experience, joining ING Australia from ITC where he worked as a regional sales manager for Western ...