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UK instos back climate change fundie

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), UK's second largest pension fund, is joining three other institutional investors in investing more than $160 million in Climate Change Capital Group. The USS together with Alliance Trust, SNS REAAL N.V., and ...

ING snaps up Zurich advisory group

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has sold its 141-strong advice and insurance broker advisory group Financial Lifestyle Solutions (FLS) to ING-owned Millennium3 Financial Services. Millennium3 is one of Australia's largest financial services ...

Mercer zeroes in on ESG managers

Mercer has revamped its manager research process to evaluate the extent fund managers pro-actively integrate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their mainstream investment process. The new research approach will give Australian ...

Premium outlines growth strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Premium Wealth Management is creating a mortgage and risk insurance business, boosting its paraplanner support services and accelerating its recruitment strategy. In addition, the dealer group plans to develop a learning and professional development ...

ANZ Private Bank recruits Hamaris

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
ANZ Private Bank has appointed George Hamaris to head of advisory and risk. Hamaris was previously appointed sales director at salary packaging firm, McMillan Shakespeare in August 2006. Prior to this position, Hamaris was general manager and then chief ...

IRESS to provide mortgage analytics

... the right mortgage can now take that service in-house after one of the country's dominant planning software group IRESS, owner of Xplan and VisiPlan, acquired mortgage analytics provider TransActive Systems. Traditionally, advisers tend to refer their ...

$500k fraudster gets jail time

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
South Australian broker trading representative Kym Andrew Sellers was last Friday sentenced to four years jail with a two-year non-parole period following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation. On 7 April 2008, Sellers ...

Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing fell by a seasonally adjusted 6.1 per cent in March, which was much worse than the median market forecast for a one per cent fall. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said 59,371 home ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
The NSW government's decision to sell its coal burning power stations before they lose all their value highlights how deeply our national focus on carbon reduction will impact the economy. The irony is the political debate around the sell-off was opposed ...

AustSafe launches Super Personal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
AustSafe Super has launched its self employed and small business super product, AustSafe Super Personal, to strengthen its position in rural and regional areas. The fund provides the same investment strategies, fees structure, insurance cover and access ...