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New head of marketing and strategy for AMP Banking

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
AMP Banking has announced the appointment of a new head of product marketing and strategy. Robert Slocombe brings 20 years of corporate and retail banking to AMP, most recently as head of product at Challenger Mortgage Management and Challenger Commercial ...

Barrett builds new distribution team at CFS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
Colonial First State's (CFS) newly appointed general manager, Paul Barrett, has finished building his new distribution management team after an internal recruitment drive, making four key appointments. Kylie Macfarlane has been promoted to head of retail ...

Govt sweetens tax on property trusts

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton has announced changes to the tax treatment of property trusts, designed to enhance their international competitiveness. Dutton said the Federal Government would be amending tax laws pertaining ...

AIG improves insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
AIG Life has beefed up the benefits and improved pricing in an overhaul of its Priority Protection insurance range in response to demand from advisers keen to write more insurance business. The changes come into effect on 2 April and include a range ...

ABN AMRO loses property securities manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
ABN AMRO's manager for its Asian Property Securities Portfolio has resigned from the organisation. David Fan, who joined ABN AMRO just over one year ago, has departed, with responsibilities to be covered in the interim by Mathew Hoult in Australia ...

MFS goes on a shopping spree

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Listed investment group MFS has been on a buying spree of late, announcing it had entered into an agreement to purchase another New Zealand advisory firm, taking a 40 per cent stake in an Australian funds management business and launching an off-market ...

Zurich reviews managers after DeAM divestment

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Hot on the heels of Deutsche Asset Management's (DeAM) divestment of its Australian funds management manufacturing business to Aberdeen Asset Management, Zurich Financial Services has asked Mercer Investment Consulting to undertake a review of managers ...

CPA Australia and SEQUAL team up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
Accounting body CPA Australia has worked with the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) to develop a new guide for members who are advising clients on reverse mortgages. Kath Bowler, CPA Australia financial planning policy ...

SELECT taps into futures with new fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
Select Asset Management has partnered with alternative investment specialist Aspect Capital to launch the Select Futures Fund, a managed fund offering retail investors access to global financial, currency and commodity futures markets. Brendan Foley ...

Time for Aussies to go global with property: APN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
The time has come for Australian investors to tap into global property opportunities with the asset class becoming truly globalised, according to APN Funds Management. Mike Doble, director of Retail for APN Funds Management, said that Australian investors ...