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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... $25.67, ANZ was up 16 cents at $19.39 and Commonwealth added 70 cents to $43.93. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said that the market was responding positively already to the news that unemployment has remained steady. "(The ...

VicSuper wins ACCA sustainability award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
VicSuper has been announced the winner of ACCA's annual Sustainability Reporting Awards. VicSuper received the top nod in three categories; Best Sustainability Report, Best SME Report and Best Report in the Financial Service sector awards at the recent ...

Officium Capital hires new 'best ideas' manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Officium Capital has selected Souls Funds Management to manage its concentrated best ideas fund after the previous manager, MMC Asset Management was sold last month. John Nunan, chief executive at Officium Capital, said the fund didn't want to leave ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... $3.64 or 6.04 per cent at $63.93. "It is another excellent day on the market," Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "It is spread pretty much right across the board and is led by the explosive growth in resources. "To say ...

Decimal targets super intra-fund advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Financial planning software provider, Decimal has teamed up with two super funds to allow the funds to provide intra-fund advice cheaper and more effectively. Jan Kolbusz, managing director at Decimal, said the firm is working with super funds to allow ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The $685 million meat industry super fund AMIST has added $28 million to four existing Australian and international equity fund mandates. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST, said the fund topped-up a number of existing mandates to increase the fund's ...

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 ...

AMP clients buy more insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... more inclined to accept insurance advice and take new or additional cover following the global financial crisis, said Michael Guggenheimer, managing director of AMP Financial Planning. "Obviously in uncertain times, clients are more reflective of their ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... turned more optimistic. Emerging economies have emerged. And in Australia, my former boss and "Big Bear" (according to Michael Pascoe), Gerard Minack of Morgan Stanley, did a "mea culpa". "Seems I was wrong to be so bearish on Australia." I've worked ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Super funds have the power to restore public confidence in superannuation, which quickly eroded after the GFC, by investing more on their brands, said the marketing firm behind the successful 'Kevin 07'campaign. Marketing firm, Lawrence Creative Strategy ...