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Fiducian's $1bn platforms build on stellar 2005

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2006
Fiducian Portfolio Services continues to build on its massive 2005 financial year performance, announcing that its platforms are now home to $1 billion and its funds are continuing to deliver strong returns. In its 2005 profits results Fiducian, an ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
In SYDNEY, the Australian share market should open weaker today as softer base and precious metal prices, as well as a weak lead from the US markets, suggest a continuation of yesterday's fall. However, given the sharp declines in the local market this ...

More meat in Meat Super

A little known super fund for the meat industry holds the title of the "lowest cost fund in the country" with above average returns to boot. The Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF), which manages super for red meat abattoirs and poultry ...

MIR's CIO heads back to UBS

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
Boutique fund manager, MIR Investment Management, and start-up of ex investment banker Michael Triguboff will lose its former chief investment officer and, as he heads back to UBS. Owen Evans, a former UBS broking analyst who was originally poached ...

MBF lifestyle protector to bundle insurance and ClearView

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
MBF is spending $25 million on marketing how it bundles ClearView and its insurance products under a "lifestyle protector" umbrella. The point of the strategy is to broaden the health insurer's image from just health insurance to wealth management and ...

ASIC pulls up reverse mortgage award winner

An award winning reverse mortgage provider has been told by ASIC to change its advertising, after it was red flagged for misleading to consumers. Transcomm Credit Co-operative Limited (Transcomm) is Personal Investor Magazine's 2005 reverse mortgage ...

REST on the hunt for new CEO

Award winning fund Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) is searching for a new chief executive with long time CEO Neil Cochrane planning to step down in August. Cochrane says that, having been with the fund for five years, the fund needs a new ...

Colonial poaches UBS property securities staff

Colonial First State Global Asset Mangement has poached two key UBS staff in an attempt to recreate the sort of success experienced by the UBS Australasian property securities team. Andrew Nicholas, formerly senior portfolio manager real estate, Australia ...

Daily economic update

US retail sales dropped by 1.3 per cent in February with ex autos falling by 0.4 per cent. Expectations were for a decline of 0.8 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively. January sales figures were revised up to show a rise of 2.9 per cent from a gain ...

Virgin home loan spices up mortgage lending

Competition is about to heat up in the home loan market after Virgin Money launched its much-anticipated home loan product which promises a low 6.59 per cent variable interest rate, a 'repayment holiday' option and savings of over $25,000. Virgin Money ...