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AGEST Super upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
AGEST Super has improved the fund's insurance arrangement to members. The latest AGEST Super member newsletter announced that cover levels have been improved for different age groups, members can now transfer existing cover into AGEST Super and members ...

Swanson leaves CommInsure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Simon Swanson is leaving the Commonwealth Bank of Australia after 30 years at the bank and four and a half years at the helm of CommInsure. Under his tenure, CommInsure became one of the largest insurers in Australia with inforce premiums of $1.5 billion ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... further 45 per cent said they didn't need it. While this shift in attitude is encouraging more needs to be done, said Michael Rogers, general manager of financial protection at AXA Australia. "The insurance industry has been working hard over the past ...

IMF Australia targets Great Southern

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
IMF Australia has agreed to fund legal proceedings on behalf of Great Southern Cattle projects against companies and various directors within the agribusiness fund manager. The planned litigation will be a group action in the Supreme Court of Western ...

SMSFs beware the taxman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... under the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act. The former Superannuation Minister Nick Sherry and tax commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo have been warning repeatedly of their concerns about the poor standards of a "minority" of trustees. And this year ...

Ratings withdrawal shows ratings fee structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... "hold". "The ratings were withdrawn due to a failure to meet our commercial terms," said a Standard & Poor's spokesperson. Michael Doble, deputy chief investment officer for property securities at APN Funds Management, said the ratings were withdrawn ...

Carthona to advise on $500m insto money

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Call Carthona Agriculture the Australian company that could. Since the start of the year, institutional investors have signed up to ask for Carthona's consultancy advice on a total $500 million worth of investments. Charlie Blomfield, managing director ...

FTSE launches enviro tech indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
FTSE Group has launched seven environmental technology indices. The indices provide exposure to the environmental technology firms that could play a major role as the world's economies shift to a low carbon economy. The indices include the FTSE Environmental ...

CSRF lends more weight to domestic equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Following its latest asset allocation review, the $2.9 billion-plus Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) is set to introduce a "bias to Australian shares" across all its investment options bar one, at the expense of international equities. ...

Seven in 10 investors are bullish: ML

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... their wallets and reducing cash balances to mid-cycle levels to buy equities, cyclical stocks and risky assets," said Michael Hartnett, Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch co-head of international investment strategy. "However, this rush to take ...