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Perpetual launches structured cap-protection fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
Perpetual has announced the first capital protected structured fund, providing lock-in gains and an option to borrow up to 100 per cent of original invested value and the first year's interest with no margin calls. Perpetual Protected Investments Series ...

ING Real Estate moving in-house

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
ING Real Estate will be moving parts of its retail portfolio capabilities back in-house, but the relationship with Savills will not be severed completely. After three years managing ING Real Estate's retail portfolio, ING has decided to bring some capabilities ...

Dutton allows warrants back on SMSF menu

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday reversed the federal government's hardline stance on instalment warrants, allowing self managed super funds to invest in warrants of "a limited recourse nature over any asset a fund would be permitted to invest ...

D'Aloisio put forward as Lucy's replacement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has flagged his preference for who should fill the top job at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), proposing former Australian Stock Exchange head, Tony D'Aloisio, take over when current chairman Jeffrey ...

H3 Global Commodities Fund gets S&P tick

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has assigned the Cayman Islands domiciled H3 Global Commodities Fund a three-star rating. Lee Comper, S&P fund analyst, said the H3 Global Commodities Fund, with a $500,000 minimum investment, was suitable only for institutional ...

Superwoman under administration

Superwoman Financial Solutions Group, a financial planning firm part-owned by ING's Millenium3 dealer group, went into voluntary administration this month. Millennium3 has appointed an external administrator to Superwoman less than a month after the ...

Future Fund focuses on building blocks

Amid pressure from the industry to disclose how and when the Future Fund will deploy its near $50 billion assets, general manager Paul Costello stressed their main focus remains on building the right operational and investment infrastructure first. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
The Japanese economy continues to show consistently good economic signals with the national surplus rising by 7.7 per cent in February compared to a year earlier. While exports grew by 9.7 per cent over the period, the fastest rate for eight months ...

Insurance on the go

ANZ and ING Australia have launched a new life insurance product that takes as little as 15 minutes for approval time, around the same time it takes to do a morning coffee run. Called OneCare Express, the life insurance product is developed from ING's ...

One in 10 Japanese planners pass CFP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
Only 10 per cent of Japanese financial planners sitting for the November 2006 Certified Financial Planner certification exams managed to pass, said the Japan Financial Planning Association (JFPA). The exams, held in 10 major cities throughout Japan ...