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State Street wins $2.2bn Canadian mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... appointed by the Canadian-based $2.2 billion Saskatchewan Teachers Federation to provide investment services to the pension plan. The deal means State Street will provide custody, fund accounting and securities lending to Canadian pension plan. The Saskatchewan ...

MLC reviews MasterKey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Financial planners may be able to access more fund managers and investment products on the MLC MasterKey platform following a review. Brent Howells, head of product, MasterKey at MLC, said the firm is reviewing the investment options on the platform ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Australian shares are expected to open higher on Monday after US stocks gained on Friday on encouraging earnings news from major retailers and on higher metals prices. At 0737 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Minister of superannuation Chris Bowen said self-managed super funds will not be exempt from strong government scrutiny - as the government cracks down on the sector's accountability, efficiency and governance issues. Speaking at the ASFA conference ...

Hillross buys Rabo Financial Advisors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Hillross Financial Services has bought Rabobank Australia & New Zealand's Rabo Financial Advisors, in a deal that sees the bank's financial planning arm move to the Hillross brand in just a few weeks. Rabo Financial Advisors represents 40 staff including ...

AXA IM appoints head of Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of Asia Pacific and plans to expand its sales team in the region. It is understood Leoni replaces Anthony Fasso, former chief executive of AXA Rosenberg Asia Pacific and AXA IM ...

Super is not for winning votes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... teachers were the wealthy. Give me a break, the same amount of thought that went into the introduction of the Employee Share Plan Scheme were, I think, put into the changes to the caps." "It was the worst decision in terms of the security of retirement ...

Adviser recruitment plagues super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... over the phone. The financial planning community disagrees, with the Financial Planning Association in July warning that the plan could place superannuation savings at risk, and the Association of Financial Advisers stating that it's product selling ...

AXA planners may not need to rebrand: AMP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
AXA Australia's financial planning network may not have to rebrand under the AMP name, except for the financial planning network bearing the French-based group's name, if the merger proposal is successful, according to Craig Dunn, chief executive at ...

MLC appoints Gupta to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
MLC appointed Peeyush Gupta, co-founder and former chief executive at Ipac Securities, to the advice & licences board as an external director. Gupta holds a number of directorships at AMP Capital Investors, Murdoch Books and Quintessence Labs. His appointment ...