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Nicholas Applegate ramps up global strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... portfolios. Our marketing efforts will be focused on those strategies, both through the consultant channel as well as direct to plan sponsors," said Hunter. Nicholas-Applegate recently appointed John Hamer as senior vice president client service and ...

Online insurance lost in cyberspace

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
Australians shopping for insurance online can save up to ten per cent more than buying them through conventional means - but the online revolution seems to be slow on the uptake, a new survey shows. According to a recent Allianz poll, only 32 per cent ...

REST and First State Super seed St Hilliers No. 4

Property fund manager St Hilliers defied the property doom and gloom when it staged its largest equity raising this week thanks to a $200 million cash injection from super funds REST and First State Super. The Sydney-based company, ranked 95th in the ...

ING snaps up Zurich advisory group

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has sold its 141-strong advice and insurance broker advisory group Financial Lifestyle Solutions (FLS) to ING-owned Millennium3 Financial Services. Millennium3 is one of Australia's largest financial services ...

van Eyk reviews equity income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Research house van Eyk has reviewed the Australian equity income sector for the first time following growing retiree interest in the strategy. The research firm stated equity income managers should seek to deliver, at a minimum, two per cent above the ...

Macquarie launches defensive options

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group is tapping the defensive investment solutions market as investors scramble to shield themselves from market volatility. The group has developed a suite of cash offerings that caters to both personal investors ...

CommSec extends its reach

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Commonwealth Bank executive general manager for private client services, Edward Tait, describes the bank's online brokerage CommSec as a financial services supermarket. At an analysts' briefing yesterday Tait outlined plans to stock the supermarket ...

ABN AMRO launches Altera

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
ABN AMRO has launched Altera Securities, a five-year structured investment that provides equal exposure to emerging markets, global infrastructure and commodities with the security of a 100 per cent capital guarantee. The fund will provide exposure ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
An Eastern European-centric socially responsible investment (SRI) fund has been developed by European-based responsible investment research provider GES Investment Services and Estonian-based Limestone Investment Management. The Limestone New Europe ...

Falkiner heads to Double Bay

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
Specialist equities fund manager Falkiner Global Investors has set up shop in Double Bay and embarked on a hiring spree. The previously Sydney-based Australian boutique fund manager recently appointed Carina Killick as chief operating officer. Killick ...