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Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Asset Super has made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates ...

Integrity and Bennelong win HIP mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Health Industry Plan (HIP) superannuation is redirecting cash flow to Australian equities, awarding investment mandates to Integrity Investment Management and Bennelong Funds Management. Ross Bernays, chief executive at HIP, said the firm reviewed its ...

FSP transitions to Oasis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Oasis Asset Management Ltd has transitioned the administration of FSP Portfolio Services' superannuation and IDPS products onto its platform. Oasis managing director Wayne Lowe said the transition was of the "largest transitions ever attempted in our ...

Metlife group VP retires

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... Barnard credited Burke with developing the annual AIST Superannuation Insurance Symposium, which Metlife continues to sponsor. Plan for Life figures released in April found group risk market inflows grew more than 12 per cent during 2008, with MetLife ...

Fund manager pioneers voice technology

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Aviva Australia has teamed up with technology providers NEC and Salmat VeCommerce to use voice biometrics as a way to service its clients. The partnership means when Aviva's customers call their voice is automatically verified when they say their password. ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Australian High Net Worth (HNW) investors, or those with more than $1 million of investable assets, are more likely to put fresh funds into Australian equities and cash-like investments over the next 12 months than in any other asset classes, a survey ...

LGS boosts green power

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... implementation of its Sustainable Portfolio Program, which includes a responsible investment policy, an environmental management plan, a renewable energy investment strategy and a sustainable tenancy program. The program has been aided by assistance ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Only two in seven funds were awarded an A rating in the latest van Eyk global listed infrastructure report, at a time when the sector lost more than 30 per cent of its value. The UBS 50-50 Infrastructure Index lost 32 per cent over a year to April ...

ING battles longevity risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
After more than a year at the helm, ING Australia's chief executive Harry Stout said the group is gearing up to launch a new suite of income and investment products tailored around longevity risks. At a time when most investment houses are hunkering ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
It wasn't quite a Eureka moment but after two years in the making, Aviva has come up with a separately managed account (SMA) that promises to resolve a lot of the issues that planners often face when they want to use the product. Due for release after ...