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Clearway adds third client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Clearway Capital Solutions, has been appointed by Connecticut based Zebra Capital Management to market the business locally and in New Zealand. Zebra Capital Management, Clearway's third client, is a quantitative investment manager that provides market ...

Morgan Stanley adds to Sydney business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Morgan Stanley is continuing to expand in Australia with four appointments in the local business. Morgan Stanley veteran of 10 years, Matthew Donald returns from the firm's Hong Kong office to take a senior role in the sales trading and equity derivatives ...

Industry backs Lifewise campaign

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and the insurance industry's online life insurance awareness campaign, Lifewise, has received overwhelming support. The Lifewise campaign centers around the program's website - www.lifewise.org.au ...

Pearce calls for trauma in super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, Chris Pearce, has called for trauma insurance to be included in superannuation. Currently, life insurance policies such as death and total and permanent disability (TPD) are allowable ...

Global funds face currency pains

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Global fund managers have been caught out by the 30 per cent fall in the Australian dollar late last year, forcing some funds to stop distributing income to unit holders for the March quarter. Research firm Zenith Investment Partners reported that the ...

Lutheran Super appoints CPG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
Lutheran Super has hired CPG Research & Advisory as the fund's asset consultant. The deal was signed last month after the super fund hired the asset consultant for two separate projects. "We did a project across a few individual funds and some managers ...

Clarion call for bargain global property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Global listed property securities have fallen too far with the US presenting some solid investment opportunities, according to ING Clarion Real Estate Securities. Chris Reich, director and portfolio manager at ING Clarion, said real estate investment ...

PIS awards top risk adviser

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Professional Investment Services (PIS) Gold Coast based insurance adviser, Jason Churchill, has won the dealer group's best risk specialist award for the third time. Churchill has been an authorised representative at PIS since 2002. He heads up the ...

Life insurers post 18 pc plus growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
CommInsure, Aviva and AIG Life recorded 18 per cent or more growth in total risk premium inflows during 2008, around six per cent higher than the market average, according to Plan for Life. The latest report found AIG Life experienced the highest annual ...

AIG Life adds to group team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
AIG Life appointed Craig Extrem as national manager, client markets - group insurance. He joins AIG Life from TOWER Australia where he worked as head of sales - group risk since April 2006. Extrem also worked at Prefsure, Lumley Life and Colonial in ...