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AustralianSuper hires Inalytics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
AustralianSuper's selected multi managers may need to refine their processes after the super fund hired research consultancy firm Inalytics to assess the skills of the underlying fund managers. Amanda Field, managing director at Inalytics, said AustralianSuper ...

Hillross selects Macq platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
AMP-owned financial planning firm Hillross has added another investment platform to the group's suite. Hillross selected the Definitive Wrap Solution platform, a version of the Macquarie Wrap, after a six-month trial with one of the group's advisory ...

Instos win $5.5m in sustainable grants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Colonial First State Global Asset Management, AMP Capital Investors and ING Management received more than $5.5 million worth of government grants to make the firms' invested properties more sustainable. The grants were awarded last week as part of the ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) is shifting the firm's global fixed income strategy's emphasis from specific country exposure to a sector based strategy that targets credit securities and currency plays. CAAM Global Bond fund's recently released ...

FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... engaged in plus what we've already engaged in will be sufficient to handle the workload." The FOS board has also changed. Michael Lavarch replaces Peter Daly, previous chair at Financial Industry Complaints and the Insurance Ombudsman Service, as chair ...

Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Australian equities investment boutique, Karara Capital is putting the firm's push into the local retail market on ice and focussing it efforts on gaining more institutional mandates. This news comes after Karara Capital advised Standard & Poor's to ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
A survey found that seven out of 10 working Australians believe that their Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions should be raised to 15 per cent, lending support to industry associations that have long lobbied for higher SG. Mercer's SG Opinion ...

Macq opens fin planning consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Macquarie Adviser Services is targeting the boutique financial planning firms by opening a new Practice Consulting division after a study found revenue across this market has dropped by 20 per cent on average. The consulting division will provide a ...

Netwealth hires legal and reg consultant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... relationships with the firm's 50 biggest clients in addition to his role as the firm's legal and regulatory consultant. Michael Heine, managing director at netwealth, said the business needed a professional legal and regulatory services consultant. "Davyd's ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... doing hard manual labour at age 65 may in reality be small and the problem may not be as significant as the Union claims. Michael O'Neil, chief executive of Australian Seniors Association, said in any case that arguing about the retirement age is only ...