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AIG Australia to be retained

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
AIG international has advised the market and policyholders that it will be retaining a majority interest in its Asian insurance companies, including its Australian life insurance operation AIG Life Australia. The announcement is part of AIG's commitment ...

Vision pumps $450m into Millennium Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
The $4.3 billion industry fund Vision Super has awarded a $450 million mandate to specialist currency and alternatives manager Millennium Global Investments. This is the first Australian win for MGI, a London-based alternative investment manager with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell again as investors worried that the US congress was beginning to doubt the need for a government bailout of financial institutions as a way to revive credit markets. At ...

Astarra joins Deloitte online service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
Astarra Capital signed on to the web based compliance management tool, Deloitte RSE Online. The Deloitte software was developed specifically to assist super funds monitor risk and compliance across all portfolios. The service includes more than 100,000 ...

PIS calls for industry and retail ceasefire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
Professional Investment Services (PIS) managing director, Grahame Evans, is calling for retail and industry super funds to put their philosophical differences aside and work together to provide a broader financial advice service to consumers. "I would ...

Sun Life appoints Goodall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
Sun Life Financial Asia appointed Mike Goodall as vice president of regional business development and bancassurance. Goodall was previously ANZ financial planning general manager and more recently, managing director at financial services firm, Inpro ...

Boutique incubators work best: Russell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
"Get in early and fast" is the winning formula when it comes to adding star boutique investment managers to a firm's funds, says Russell Investments. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian Investment Summit in Melbourne last week, Jon Eggins, research ...

Serious about planning: Health Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
The financial planning arm of the $7.6 billion industry fund Health Super, Health Super Financial Planning (HSFP), is rolling out six new services as clients voice their need for more sophisticated advice. HSFP, which offers its services to the fund's ...

Dovish RBA minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
As expected, the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's monetary policy meeting held on 5 August reiterated earlier RBA comments suggesting that there is scope to lower interest rates given the slowdown in demand in the Australian economy. As with ...

Green to exit Babcock & Brown

ASX RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
After days of speculation, Babcock & Brown has finally announced that managing director Phil Green will be leaving the company. In an ASX statement released today, the group said there will be board and management changes at the company. Phil Green ...