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Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The sale of Aviva Australia to NAB raises questions on the future revenue flows of Aviva Investors Australia, the local fund management business excluded from the deal. Aviva Investors Australia, formerly Portfolio Partners, is one of the largest and ...

Super is a good idea but needs fixing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Superannuation is a good idea but the design of the system to implement it is regressive and flawed, argues Julian Disney, social justice law professor and long time researcher and campaigner on equity issues. Disney said the difficulty is that while ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors hired Warwick Mancini as head of investment specialists for unlisted assets and Brigette Leckie as senior investment specialist for Asia Pacific equities. Mancini joins AMP Capital Investors from Macquarie Group where he worked ...

ATO targets loss schemes

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
As the 2008-09 financial year draws to a close, tax commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo warned last month that his office will be closely reviewing three arrangements that attempt to falsely generate claims for inappropriate tax losses. The department is ...

Deutsche commits to CSR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... of funding allocated to social projects. More than 30 per cent went to educational programmes and roughly a quarter went to art and culture projects. In addition, Deutsche Bank's employees also performed almost 36,000 days of volunteer work last year ...

Macq opens fin planning consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Macquarie Adviser Services is targeting the boutique financial planning firms by opening a new Practice Consulting division after a study found revenue across this market has dropped by 20 per cent on average. The consulting division will provide a ...

Diamonds are an investor's best friend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Move over bonds and cash - precious rocks, avant-garde art and collectible cars are now gaining favour as "alternative" investments for some of the world's richest high net worth investors. According to a London-based Datamonitor wealth investment analyst ...

Australian Ethical sponsors art prize

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Are you the next Rembrandt or Andy Warhol? Australian Ethical is sponsoring the Australian Ethical Art Prize - a competition open to all artists. According to the Australian Ethical website, the fund manager is sponsoring an art competition which encourages ...

Kofoed leaves ESSSuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... great effect in gaining agreement to extending the range of products available to all members, and in developing state of the art online access for all members of our funds. At all times Don has had a clear focus on working to provide optimum retirement ...

Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Homegrown technology firm Praemium Limited finalised the development of its flagship products tailored to the British market but was forced to cut overheads following the UK recession. The technology firm told the ASX this week that it has reduced its ...