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Progressive trumps all with simple strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Keeping it simple has worked for Sydney-based Progressive Superannuation Plan. The fund's balanced option has beaten most of its larger well-known peers in the same category by 3 per cent over a five-year period to May. Rainmaker SelectingSuper data ...

QSuper call centre wins top gong

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... beat fellow finalists GE Money and Energex for the top prize at the Australian Teleservices Association State Awards. Michael Meredith, chief executive of the ATA, said QSuper "would be the first [super fund] in a long time" to win the teleservices centre ...

ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... principal at Professional Financial Solutions; Tiina Takolander assistant vice president at Credit Suisse Private Banking and Michael Davies, director of technical assessing and education director at AICLA all joined the Institute Academic Council. The ...

AMP Capital targets Japanese savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... cent of Gemini Advisors Securities Investments after AMP Capital bought a 30 per cent stake in the company in late 2003. Michael Clarke, director of international business at AMP Capital Investors, said the firm's initial goal was to provide AMP Capital ...

Bluedoor Technology on hiring spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
DST Global Solutions has been overwhelmed with the response from super funds after the firm bought administration technology provider Bluedoor Technologies and is hiring a number of financial services experts to develop the business. Ian Mathieson ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... index contract was 12 points lower at 4,025 on 9,540 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said that the market had had a disappointing morning. "The major stocks on the market are having a breather today ...

Trust launches strategy review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Trust chief executive and managing director, John Atkin, and a number of other executives at the firm have launched a strategic review of the business. The review was announced Bruce Corlett, chair at Trust, yesterday at the company's annual general ...

Australian Ethical closes World Trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Australian Ethical Investment has closed the firm's World Trust, redirecting investors to a similar trust that offers lower fees and requires a lower minimum investment amount. The firm said no further investments into the World Trust would be accepted ...

Financial planning is key: Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Westpac chief executive and managing director, Gail Kelly, said in a briefing yesterday that the bank's financial planning business is central to Westpac's multi-brand strategy. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch briefing, Kelly said ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... engine was developed so that it can accept more cases on first lodgement. For example, CommInsure's head of marketing Michael Browne said that using WriteAway, they can process around 30 per cent of all insurance applications within 30 minutes, compared ...