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Manion joins Snowball

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... Tony McDonald, managing director at Snowball, said Manion's chartered accounting and financial planning experience is a big plus for the group's planners. "Sally's first hand experience of the challenges faced by advisers and the importance of management ...

Karagianis moves to MLC

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... "Strategic Overlay was announced in late 2009 and allows us to act on our long-term market insights, making adjustments of plus or minus 5 per cent to the strategic asset allocation where appropriate." MLC Investment Management runs $114 billion in funds ...

Auscoal switches to daily unit pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
The $5 billion-plus Auscoal Super has switched from weekly crediting rates to daily unit pricing in line with the broader industry shift towards daily unit pricing. Auscoal Super started its new calculation method at the beginning of this month. According ...

Maritime and Auscoal Super in merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
Maritime Super is in merger talks with coal community industry fund Auscoal Super to create an $8 billion-plus fund. The Maritime Union of Australia confirmed that Maritime Super, which had around $3 billion in assets at the end of March according to ...

Review reinforces power of fund scale

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... be $28 billion. Not everyone, however, agrees with the calls for mega funds, including chief executive of the $1 billion-plus legalsuper, Andrew Proebstl. He warns that there is a real risk of "spending time debating on philosophical positions", which ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... Resource Rent Tax that sees the headline tax rate cut by a quarter to 30 per cent, a huge rise in the uplift rate to bond rate plus 7 percentage points, the abandonment of the government co-investment rebate concept, and a narrowing of the scope of the ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... shareholder value subsequent to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill." At the time of the event, the $150 billion-plus fund held more than 19 million shares in BP. The fund provides benefits to more than one million active and retired state ...

Tyndall launches share income fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... shares that provide tax effective income quarterly. The fund aims to achieve a total return of the consumer price index (CPI) plus six per cent over rolling seven-year periods and provide a gross dividend yield greater than the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... direction." Wall Street closed mixed on Friday, after its last session on the announcement of a major financial reform bill plus a downward revision to first-quarter economic growth.

How the wealthy invest their money

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... representing 95,000 clients, makes Australia the 4th largest percentage gain in Asia Pacific. While the market's rebound of 30-plus per cent last year was a contributing factor of the trend, financial advisers have played a key role in helping protect ...