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Russell overhauls diversified funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... approach is 'first, do not harm' - fund managers don't invest if they don't have high conviction. In contrast, TAA investors feel obliged to time the market and invest, when they shouldn't have. "The thing behind TAA is you have to have a very tight ...

Banking customers get free anti-virus upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... important documents," said Lloyd Borrett, marketing manager at AVG. "Suncorp Bank's customers who take up this special offer can feel comfortable as they freely engage in their online activities." Simon Clarke, internet banking specialist at Suncorp ...

Job freezes to thaw: Watson Wyatt

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Another 20 per cent are sitting on the fence - unsure if they will alter current salary arrangements. "While more employers now feel the worst of the current downturn may be behind them, most are not expecting to go back to 'business as usual'," said ...

Cooper targets investment fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... funds under management," he said. "This is in spite of the economies of scale that a larger fund brings - this just doesn't feel like it's right for super." However, Dominic McCormick, chief investment officer of Select Funds Management cautions that ...

Crisis curbs Cuffe charity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... advertisements. "If we thought we had to give it a harder pay push we would. The feedback to us is people would use the fund once they feel more comfortable with the markets," he said. "We've had around 7,000 hits on the website so I think there's a ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each year. The government-backed Financial Literacy campaign gets ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Phew! That wasn't stressing at all. In the end, the official announcement of the results of the stress test conducted on 19 of America's biggest banks became a sort of anti-climax for the equity markets. Where to from here? The verdict? Ten of the 19 ...

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Institutional investors are gaining the upper hand in securing the best direct property deals as the "government guarantee" chokes retail fund inflows into the $60 billion direct property market. Nearly half of 100 direct property fund managers said ...

Sunsuper upgrades retirement program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... pre-retirement you want to grow your assets as fast as you can but in retirement your going to paying out a pension every month so we feel there should be a higher proportion of assets that generate income like dividend paying shares," he said. Sunsuper ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
Wall Street must be at home sick with the flu last night. The S&P 500 and the Dow barely budged at the same time that news of more infections traveled around the globe. Perhaps the swines are just taking advantage of cheaper plane tickets and accommodations ...