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Zenith rates Fairview fund 'recommended'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Equity Partners is managed by three executive directors that also act as portfolio managers - Chris Adams, Leigh Cronin and Michael Glenane. The group has also partnered NAB Group direct investment management business, nabInvest. The fund aims to outperform ...

Zurich's three-year health check spur mandate changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Zurich Investment Management has made dramatic changes to its Managed Growth Fund following a major review conducted once every three years. The changes follow a review with Mercer, the firm's investment consultant, which occurs every three years. Kansas ...

Treasury profits down 57pc but positive outlook

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Treasury Group's normalised profit for the past financial year fell by 57 per cent to $7.5 million as funds under management dropped more than 12 per cent to $10 billion. The group's net profit after tax (NPAT) was $4.9 million, a 71 per cent fall during ...

Consultum adds six advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... Management and Neil Sutera from Next Phase Wealth Advisers, who are both Victorian-based, also recently joined Consultum. Michael Cubbage from Prosperity Partners, WA, rounded up the new appointments. These additions bring the group's national total ...

IOOF profits down, to divest life insurance...

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
IOOF has posted a 32 per cent drop in net profit after tax (NPAT) to $15.8 million for the last financial year as funds under management, administration and advice fell by $7 billion to $61 billion. The result represents the first profit announcement ...

RSL calls for super revamp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
The Returned Services League (RSL) is calling for the government to address how it calculates military pensions after an alternative pension index rose by almost double the consumer price index in the first half of this year. Bill Crews, national president ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... could be the answer, with one asset manager's flagship fund returning more than 20 per cent annualised since inception. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive at East Capital Asia, said while a long-term story, Eastern European countries are presenting ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... price index contract was 39 points lower at 4380 on volume of 12,836 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the market had waxed and waned throughout the day. "The big news today is Woolworths announcement of taking ...

Suncorp FUM down, life risk profits up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Suncorp's funds under management fell almost $800 million to $23 billion but the firm was buoyed by life risk profits which rose 13 per cent to $87 million. The firm's full year profit results found the funds management division was hit by bad markets ...

Challenger returns to core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Challenger Financial Services has posted full year net profit after tax (NPAT) of $219 million, up 1 per cent versus last year on funds under management (FUM) down 27 per cent to $16 billion. The group said at the results presentation this morning that ...