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Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
Super funds will have much greater scope to offer financial services and even transaction banking facilities to their retired members under the Simplified Super changes announced in last year's Budget. The abolition of taxes on super benefits, both ...

BIAM appoints head of sales

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) Australia has announced the appointment of an ex-InTech executive as the new head of client services and sales. Brett Elvish joins the BIAM team from InTech Investment Consultants where he held the position of ...

Real estate gets Hi Q

A double-digit return in a single-digit world? Real Estate Capital Partners (RECP) has launched an income fund called 'Hi Q' that aims to deliver a high 10.63 per cent income per year by adding derivatives to the mix. The new highly intelligent (Hi ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open flat with little lead from Wall Street and patchy commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0706 AEDT, the March share price index contract was down two points at 5869. In economic news today ...

Challenger finds right address with QAS

Challenger Financial Services Group has bought QAS' QuickAddress address matching and verification solution, designed to maximise the accuracy and effectiveness of its customer databases while cutting costs. "We expect QuickAddress to have an immediate ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

PMI boosts sales team

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
PMI Mortgage Insurance (PMI) has appointed a new head of sales, responsible for developing and implementing operating plans to generate new business while maximising existing customer relationships. Tony MacRae brings with him over 18 years experience ...

Mortgage funds shouldn't sit on cash: AUI

Mortgage fund managers who hold a large chunk of their portfolio in cash will struggle to meet their performance targets and therefore can't justify their fees, according to Australian Unity Investments (AUI). Australian Unity Investments' head of mortgages ...

Virgin conquers web

Virgin Super has enjoyed a 30 per cent increase in new customers in less than six months thanks to its online strategy. While web applications have existed for many years in other industries, it is a fairly new concept in superannuation with latest ...