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Perpetual poised to gain market share

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Perpetual outlines its strategies designed to make its products and services more appealing to investors as sentiment towards equities turn more positive and the "dash to cash" comes to an end. Speaking at the company's full year results presentation ...

QSuper selects SuperChoice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
The $24 billion QSuper appointed SuperChoice to enhance the fund's processing capabilities and assist members making contributions when they leave the public sector. Rosemary Vilgan, chief executive at QSuper, said the fund regularly receives phone ...

ANZ buys RBS businesses for $687 million

ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
ANZ forges its presence in Asia when it bought several banking and wealth management businesses in the region from the Royal Bank of Scotland for $687 million. According to an ASX release this morning, the acquisition includes the RBS retail, wealth ...

MLC wins life insurer of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
MLC has won the 2009 Life Insurance Company of the Year by the Australia & New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) for the fourth time in six years. The firm's product design, customer and adviser research and upgrade philosophy were ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Australian Christian Superannuation (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David ...

QSuper bulks senior investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
QSuper has appointed former QIC head of portfolio design, Damian Lillicrap, as head of strategy and Herbert Chang as head of capital markets. Lillicrap and Chang, together with head of funds management Charles Woodhouse complete the roster of senior ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) allocations to international shares has almost halved over a one and a half year period. The Multiport SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares ...

ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance has appointed three new members to the Academic Council and another to the General Insurance Advisory Committee. Philip Maguire, principal at Professional Financial Solutions; Tiina Takolander ...

BNP Paribas appoints new AM chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Philippe Marchessaux is the new head of BNP Paribas' asset management businesses. Marchessaux succeeds Gilles Glicenstein as head of BNP Paribas Investment Partners and chief executive of BNP Paribas Asset Management. He was previously deputy chief ...

MTAA members, rev your engines

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
The $5 billion MTAA Super is going full throttle to support its motoring enthusiast members - it is the official super fund for the V8 Supercars series and is holding competitions for members to get involved in the 2009 championships. MTAA Super, the ...