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Zurich appoints life risk head

Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has appointed a new head of Life Risk as it grows its life risk business. Andrew McKee will head the life risk business and assist in what the company describes as an "aggressive" life risk push in coming ...

Asian hedge fund to target Australian assets

... mix of strategies and country exposures that will help underpin their multi-manager and multi-strategy approaches that they plan to incorporate into other funds planned for launch in 2006.

New researcher for InvestorWeb

InvestorWeb expands its Sydney research team with the appointment of a new analyst. Ty Chea will join the InvestorWeb team later this month to cover fixed interest and diversified investments. Angela Ashton, Investor Web General Manager of Managed Investments ...

NSW bookies top super fund

The NSW Bookmakers Super Fund has topped the SelectingSuper five year default option performance tables scoring an astounding 12.8 per cent per annum. The $90 million Bookmakers fund does not use an external asset consultant and manages its own investments ...

Too many people unprepared for retirement: Count

Count Wealth Accountants says there is a worrying trend that the 'new breed' of retirees want to 'live it up' and are not saving enough to match their lifestyle expectations. The trend comes out of the results of a Count conducted survey, which asked ...

Zurich upgrades policies for free

Zurich Financial Services Australia has upgraded more than 50,000 life risk insurance policies for free as part of its ongoing program to improve its products. Clients who are eligible for the free upgrade will benefit from an increase in their maximum ...

Platypus leads pack with 44.4 per cent return

A little-known Sydney-based fund manager Platypus Asset Management has beaten the big guns to take the top spot in Intech's fund manager performance league tables this year. According to Intech's figures on the best performers in the Australian equities ...

TrailCap tracks hidden commissions

InvestSMART's new trailing commission tracking device, TrailCap, has reported $40 million in investments since the program launched in June 2005. TrailCap does not require that investors switch out of their existing funds and they do not and cannot ...

Aust Unity to expand retirement villages arm

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has launched a fixed income product designed for retirees and will use the funds raised to expand the company's retirement village operations. The group has announced it will issue Retirement Village Investment Notes ...

Opes Prime launches into Asia

Stockbroking firm Opes Prime is to unveil a suite of products early next year to exploit the Asian markets boom and separately, to boost its domestic presence. From its humble beginnings as a four-man team in Melbourne offering securities lending service ...