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High school fin literacy for Aussies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Insurance and super will soon be explained to high school students via a new government and ASIC-led financial literacy resource. Senator Nick Sherry, minister of superannuation and corporate law and Tony D'Aloisio, Australian Securities and Investments ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Perpetual has reopened applications for three of its $1.7 billion mortgage funds after an 18 day suspension to all its mortgage and income funds. The fund manager announced yesterday that it is now accepting applications for the Monthly Income Fund ...

Super funds back biotech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), ARIA and Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund are investing in the GBS Venture Partners BioVentures IV fund, which closed with more than $100 million in commitments. Macquarie Group, Quay Partners ...

Media Super moves away from enhanced cash

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Media Super has invested $70 million into the CFS Wholesale Premium Cash Fund following a board review that said goodbye to the fund's investment in enhanced cash options. Ross Martin, chief executive of the $2.4 billion industry fund, said the review ...

MLC appoints portfolio manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
MLC Investment Management has appointed Stuart Piper as portfolio manager with primary responsibility for all aspects of MLC's debt strategies and several non-equity strategies. Piper will be responsible for the firm's debt strategies and a number of ...

Make or break for PE managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Private equity managers will have to front up more of their own capital to finance new deals as funding in leveraged buy-outs dry up, according to a Watson Wyatt report. The Watson Wyatt report found deal volumes in leveraged buy outs (LBOs) fell by ...

Sunsuper pumps $100m into Trinity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
The $13 billion industry fund Sunsuper has invested $100 million into the unlisted Trinity Property Trust. "The idea [of this investment] is that there will be plenty of opportunities coming up in the next year because of distressed sellers," said David ...

Don't fire marketers: Business Health

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Financial planning practices owners could be financially worse off in the future if they decide to lay off marketing staff in a bid to cut costs. Terry Bell, Business Health partner, said often the first cost cutting measures involve laying off marketing ...

Planners still optimistic: MLC

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Bad markets? Tick. Shaky economic times? Tick. Planners' business growth? Tick. Despite the market downturn, 43 per cent of financial planning business owners are confident their business will grow by more 25 per cent per year in the next five years ...

AXA enhances North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial planners can help their clients protect their investment and contributions for the next five years after AXA Australia enhanced its North product. The new Protected Investment Guarantee option is a five to seven year, complete return of capital ...