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Planners face higher PI fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) dispute resolution scheme overhaul means financial planners may be forced to pay higher professional indemnity premiums and their clients could face higher fees. The new rules mean that from ...

CFS GAM releases second PRI report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM), which manages more than $128 billion in funds, has launched its second progress report on implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). The report covers the firm's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... index contract was 67 points higher at 3819 on a volume of 12,075 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the rally in the US overnight was lifting the local market. "It's going extraordinarily well and it's driven ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Forestry group ITC banks on its prudent business model to ride the crisis facing the agribusiness sector after Timbercorp and Great Southern went into administration. Adam Redman, spokesperson at ITC, said the firm's key business is forestry, a key ...

Trustees hot on ESG course

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Around 50 superannuation trustees completed the inaugural Australian Institute Superannuation Trustees (AIST) environmental, social and governance (ESG) course for super fund trustees. Yesterday, minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator ...

Russell revamps structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has restructured along five global services lines that will work collaboratively with the firm's regional offices to deliver a better service to Australian based clients. The revised structure means Russell Investments will operate ...

AMP posts strong super and risk flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
AMP recorded around $2 billion in net cashflows to the firm's superannuation and pension business last year and announced a focus on simpler, transparent products in the long term. AMP Financial Services' net cashflows were up $81 million in the first ...

Mercer and MLC top IC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Mercer and MLC have topped the implemented consulting survey in Australian shares and international shares respectively. The latest Rainmaker Information/CPG Research & Advisory found Mercer topped the Australian shares table losing 1.5 per cent followed ...

Amnesty pushes for fund review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Fund managers may want to review investments in PetroChina, Sinopec, Petronas and the Oil and National Gas Corporation (ONGC) after Amnesty International linked the companies to providing revenue to the Sudanese government. This warning comes after ...

Aviva targets SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Aviva Australia has developed a program that provides all the tools financial advisers will require to adequately service the investment and insurance demands of small to medium enterprises (SME). The program, SME Professionals, is broken up into two ...