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Perennial wins AUSfund mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
Perennial Growth Management has been awarded an Australian equities mandate by AUSfund. David Hayne, chief executive of AUSfund, the eligible roll-over fund for industry super plans, said the appointment of Perennial Growth Management was an attempt ...

Babcock & Brown runs with the wind

Babcock & Brown Wind Partners (BBW) has planted its flag in the largest wind energy market in the world after it secured the rights to buy a portfolio of wind farms in Germany. The ASX-listed group announced it has entered into a framework agreement ...

Alternatives go mainstream

Alternative investments are increasingly becoming mainstream, with 86 per cent of global institutional investors revealing plans to add hedge fund managers to their current portfolios and 67 per cent planning to hire private equity managers. The figures ...

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 ...

Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

The Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a four-pronged corporate strategy that includes merging two key units, improving IT and offering flexible employment in a bid to remain one of the country's leading banks. Commonwealth's chief executive officer, Ralph ...

Rabo Life JV to focus on rural life insurance

Rabobank and Future Life Financial Services have launched a life insurance joint venture, Rabo Life, specifically for people in rural and regional Australia. The 50/50 joint venture is focused on providing specialist life insurance advice and products ...

Manage the property, don't chase the sector: Centro

Finding a country with a booming retail property sector and diverting your investment capital accordingly is not as important as the bottom up management of your direct property investments, according to Centro. On the back of its announcement that ...

Super fund taxes break through $5 billion

Total taxation revenue collected by all levels of government in Australia climbed to $230 billion in 2004-05, of which only $5.1 billion was paid by super funds. Super fund taxes, however, have only climbed 8.5 per cent since 200-01, which is significantly ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

In a speech to the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners conference, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce said the key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment ...

InvestorWeb downgrades Perpetual funds

Ratings and research house InvestorWeb has downgraded a number of Perpetual funds after the group altered its Australian share fund's allocation to allow its managers to invest in international shares. InvetorWeb Research investment analyst, Jeremy ...