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MetLife sells annuity business to Challenger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
MetLife Insurance has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership its annuity and pension business to Challenger Life. The sale is part of MetLife's strategy to focus on its core strengths, particularly group insurance. "This transaction will free ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

Fight the ATO not Govt on MIS tax ruling: Costello

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
There is growing unrest within the tax-effective agricultural investment community that the Australian Tax Office's proposition to scrap the up-front tax concessions associated with non-forestry managed investment schemes (MIS) will cause havoc. Treasurer ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
The Australian housing industry continues to display pent up momentum with the latest ABS data showing that despite the three interest rate hikes of last year there were increases over the period of November to December of 1.1 per cent in the value ...

Solid stock picks in 2007: Ord Minnett

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
Ord Minnett has released its top stock picks for 2007, underlined by some key market and environmental factors. For the year ahead Ord Minnett sighted healthy corporate balance sheets, Australia's superannuation system, continued mergers and acquisitions ...

Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

... Virgin Super at 30th overall in the balanced category out of 203 individual investment options," said Andrew Keevers, associate director of research, Selecting Super. He said this is a surprising outcome given Virgin Super uses indexing from Macquarie ...

China booming to a bubble?

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... encouraging that the Chinese Government has recognised a problem and are trying to curb the demand," said Stuart James, associate director of Aberdeen Asset Management. "The government needs to ensure there is a controlled slowdown of the market - they ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

IMCA annoints new chair

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Lorraine Berends, principal of Marvin & Palmer Associates and director of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has been elected chair of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia. Berends has been a director ...

INVESCO boosts insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... bringing in business and servicing new and existing clients." Howard has 10 years industry experience, most recently as associate director - fund manager relations with National Australia Bank. She has also spent time with Russell Investment Group and ...