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Great Southern falls into administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Agribusiness fund manager Great Southern has appointed administrators after its banks withdrew support for its ongoing restructuring program. The directors of Great Southern Limited and Great Southern Managers Australia Limited have appointed Martin ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... distribute its products on the AMP SMA platform. AMP investors are now able to access three Australian equities portfolios - the MAx Incrementus, MAx ProVentus and MAx Virtus funds - and a listed property trust through the AMP platform. DNR's LPT product ...

Baby boomers hang on to investments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Baby Boomers may be sitting tight with their investment strategies, but many are arming themselves with education and taking a more prudent investment approach in a bid to ride out the GFC, new research shows. The latest Retire Ready survey from Commonwealth ...

AMP moves into direct super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Flexible Lifetime Super Easy, designed to appeal to Gen X and Y. This move by AMP follows a trend by Virgin Superannuation, Max Super and the popular BT Super for Life to move into the direct distribution space with low cost, online superannuation products. ...

Joint Committee has consumer loans in its sights

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' inquiry into financial products and services will include a review of banking products. Reflecting the transfer of oversight of consumer finance to the Commonwealth, which will ...

Better service for new members: REST

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
The $13 billion industry fund for the retail sector, REST Super, has launched an upgraded New Member Application Process to improve the fund's initial service to members. Last week, REST announced the new service which was developed to enhance new member ...

Russell slashes Aust jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Russell Investment Group has cut around 20 per cent of the firm's Melbourne and Sydney staff, but leaves local investment teams mostly intact. According to industry sources, the firm's Melbourne office, where the majority of staff cuts were made, suffered ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Lonsec has reinstated HFA Asset Management's International Shares fund 'recommended' rating. The fund had been on 'fund watch' since January 20 because of "uncertainty surrounding the parent company, HFA Holdings". Those concerns have since been allayed ...

Aviva offers insurance relief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Insurance provider Aviva has upgraded its product to allow clients, who recently lost their jobs, the option to waive premiums for up to a year. The option helps clients who become involuntarily unemployed because of the global financial crisis. Aviva ...

Model your retirement: Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Sunsuper has launched a retirement modeller that projects members' retirement income and lifestyles. Sunsuper, which has around $13 billion in assets, last month unveilled a new retirement modeller to help members understand if they are on track for ...