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TAL hires new chief actuary

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
Life insurer TAL has appointed Fred Rowley as its new chief actuary. He will lead the company's actuarial business providing advice to the TAL executive team and board around the group's core insurance risks. Prior to joining TAL, Rowley was principal ...

VicSuper starts daily unit pricing

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
VicSuper has said its investments returns are more transparent, after the industry superannuation fund moved to daily unit pricing from 1 January this year. Daily unit pricing is widely accepted as a more transparent method of calculating and applying ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... October 2007. The trigger? Good US data releases of course. Jobless claims dropped by 37K to 335K in the week ended 12 January - much less than the expected 369K. To be sure, this is a volatile series and care must be taken to interpret one week's data. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
Australian shares have opened flat as traders wait to see if the market surpasses a 19-month high reached after the New Year. At 1014 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.6 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,748.0 and the broader All ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
In the wake of several high-profile redundancies across the global organisation, Mercer has said that it is business as usual for its Australian asset-consulting arm. It was revealed at the end of last year that Mercer was abandoning a three-year-old ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... consistent with retaining the triple-A". He was referring, of course, to the 13th hour deal on the fiscal cliff last 2 January - the spending cuts negotiations portion of which has been postponed to next month and the lifting of the ever-rising debt ...

AMP names new Genesys boss

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
AMP Financial Services has appointed Paul Robertson as managing director of Genesys Wealth Advisers. Robertson was previously chief executive of Tynan Mackenzie and was heavily involved in integrating the business with ipac following a merger. Prior ...

Colonial First State wins $500m in Russell mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
Colonial First State Global Asset Management has been handed $500 million worth of mandates across Australia, the US and Canada after Russell Investments included it on its Global Listed Infrastructure multi-manger platform. Colonial First State Americas ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
"Problems, problems, pro-o-o-o-blems They won't be solved until I'm sure of you-o-ou..." -Everly Brothers That's' right dynamite, the myriad of problems in the financial markets that haunted investors everywhere appears to have gone the way of 2012 ...

New super fund launch by SA Govt

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
Super SA Select, a new SA government super fund which commenced on 1 January 2013 is targeting young workers, part-time and casual public sector employees. Designed to provide SA public sector employees with more choice for their super, Super SA members ...