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New tool to benchmark personal financials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
A new online service called Wealth benchmarks will make it possible to benchmark and compare individual financial information, including salary, mortgage, net worth and superannuation. Wealth benchmarks is set to be rolled out early in 2007 and will ...

Aon welcomes new head of wealth management

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
Aon Australia has recruited the head of MLC advice platforms, Pierre Kraft, to head up its Aon Wealth Management and Aon Financial Planning and Protection businesses. Stewart Fotheringham, Aon director, said Kraft brings leadership, technical and business ...

FKP Core Plus Fund proves attractive

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
FKP Funds Management today announced that its FKP Core Plus Fund had closed "significantly oversubscribed" after raising $136 million from 17 wholesale investors. Initially FKP Funds Management hoped to raise $100 million from wholesale investors, but ...

Aust Meat Industry Super Trust opens to the public

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
The Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has just gone public offer - good news for those who have been banging on the door for some time trying to join the fund. Fund secretary, Paul Cahill, said AMIST had received a lot of interest ...

Pentacle expands distribution through planning groups

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
Pentacle Property Funds Management has entered into strategic partnerships with a suite of financial planning groups in a move towards widening distribution for Pentacle products. Pentacle announced it had entered into agreements with a range of groups ...

New planners lack listening skills

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Research from Deakin University has found that recently qualified financial planners are deficient in listening skills and lack the required knowledge to formulate a plan for those approaching retirement. The Deakin University research looked at 162 ...

CFS adds two to fixed interest and credit team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Colonial First State has added two new recruits to its fixed interest and credit team. Darja Milosevic has joined the team as senior quantitative analyst and Lisa Munckton has been appointed assistant portfolio manager. Milosevic has spent the last ...

Macquarie appoints insto business manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Macquarie Adviser Services has appointed an ex-Merrill Lynch investment specialist to the newly created position of institutional business manager for the Macquarie Professional Series range of funds. Angus Carson joins Macquarie with Peter Shepherd ...

INGIM adds to international asset management team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
ING Investment Management (INGIM) has appointed Steve Barraclough as senior portfolio manager, tactical strategies to bolster its international asset management team. For the past seven years Barraclough has been responsible for managing Coca-Cola Amatil's ...

AAA and Questus marching to the same drum

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
Adelaide based AAA Financial Group and Western Australian based Questus Capital have entered into a strategic partnership to streamline back office and support functions and establish one of the country's largest non-aligned planner networks. The strategic ...