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GESB expands its board

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Government Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) appoints the current PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) head of national retirement incomes and asset actuarial consulting group as its employer director. Catherine Nance will be joining the GESB board for a ...

Swan approves AMP/AXA merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Deputy prime minister and Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has approved of the proposed takeover of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings by AMP. Swan said he was satisfied the AMP acquisition of AXA APH was is in the national interest. The approval is, however, subject ...

Macquarie Funds remove performance fee

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Macquarie Funds Group has made drastic changes to the fees charged by its International Infrastructure Securities fund, including the removal of the performance fees charged by the manager. "We have moved to simplify the fund by removing the performance ...

Zurich taps small business owners insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has upgraded its life insurance products, with some of the key features designed to appeal to the small business owners (SBO) market. Zurich has introduced three new levels of cover to its Income Replacement ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
"Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall St is generally higher, as are European and Asian indices. Precious metals and industrial are higher, but oil is down. On the ASX 24 at 0849 AEDT, the March share ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

AUSCOAL and Maritime drop merger talks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
AUSCOAL Super and Maritime Super have decided not to merge, opting instead to pursue more strategic partnerships, for now. In a joint statement, Maritime Super fund chair Paddy Crumlin and AUSCOAL Super's Arthur Weston said that their fund members would ...

Alphinity grows new business

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
New funds management firm Alphinity Investment Management has enjoyed a flying start after taking over two Challenger products late last year. The Alphinity Concentrated Australian Share Fund, formerly known as the Challenger Select Australian Share ...