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S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Standard and Poor's has launched three new Shariah law-compliant indices, targeting infrastructure, healthcare and large-midcap stocks. The three indices are the S&P Global Infrastructure Shariah, S&P Global Healthcare Shariah, and S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap ...

CommBank buys IWL

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has taken over broking technology provider IWL, dismissing the company's board and replacing chief executive Otto Buttula. The purchase became final after the Victorian Supreme Court authorised court orders lodged by IWL on Friday. ...

MLC tailors critical illness underwriting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
MLC has strengthened its underwriting business by creating the Critical Illness-Special Risk tool and by hiring additional experts to help advisers. Tracey Crowe, chief underwriter at MLC, said the Critical Illness-Special Risk tool would allow MLC ...

FPA chair joins FPSB

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair Corinna Dieters will represent Australia in the nine-member global governing body of Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB). FPSB is a non-profit international organisation that manages and develops ...

2007 Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards winners

The 2007 Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards ceremony held in Sydney this morning highlighted the year that was in superannuation, where the best and finest tussled for the top gong. In its second year running, Rainmaker has expanded the award categories ...

ING IM tailored to suit

ING Investment Management has restructured its existing management team to cater for recent developments in the investments industry, particularly growing institutional demand for alpha/beta-specific strategies. It's not quite a radical departure from ...

Frontier finds gold in sub-prime muck

Frontier Investment, an asset consultant that advises on $90 billion of super fund assets, sees the next six to 12 months as a "window of buying opportunity" of quality stocks unfairly tainted by the sub-prime crisis. Speaking as a panelist at today's ...

CBA links with German investment bank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has signed a reciprocal agreement with German investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort to provide Dresdner's corporate clients with banking services in Australia and vice versa. The non-exclusive deal will mean both banks will act as ...

AFS tailors record profits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has announced they will end the year breaking all previous records. The results, as measured by the group's key performance indicators (KPIs), saw a 103 per cent increase in income, 49 per cent rise in profitability ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
Investor sentiment across developing countries in Asia remains buoyant, and higher than in more established and sophisticated markets, according to an ING study. The ING Investment Sentiment Tracking Study surveyed 1,308 'mass affluent' investors in ...