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Aviva prepares for equity investment surge

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Investors can start preparing for the upswing in the local equity market after Aviva launched a dollar cost averaging tool which allows them to gradually move some of their cash investments into other asset classes. The Progressive Switching Facility ...

Invest in shares or migrate: Ruthven

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... sector, AGEST Super which is still allocating investments towards equities instead of cash. According to chief executive Michael Seton, the fund has not reduced its allocations to Australian or global shares despite the market downturn. "Our strategies ...

Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, Chris Pearce has sided with IFSA in slamming the government's proposed plan to publish superannuation option performance tables. He said the government's chosen method is "sloppy" ...

ITC Funds Management expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... month, the group appointed John Ntatsopoulos as key account manager. His appointment follows the recruitment in January of Michael Bryant as national product development manager and Gerard Bailey as regional sales manager based in New South Wales. Ntatsopoulos ...

Qld firm to restore "faith" in planning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Queensland based financial planning firm, Aylesbury Financial Group is providing free financial advice to those who can't afford it to restore the community's faith in financial planning services. Trudy Heins, Aylesbury Financial Group senior financial ...

Allianz pays $500,000 to bushfire sufferers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Allianz Australia has paid out more than $500,000 to Victoria's bushfire victims and expects the total industry insured damage to reach $1 billion. By noon on Thursday Allianz had received 533 claims valued at more than $55 million, more than double ...

Zenith wins clients and adds to team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Zenith Investment Partners has won four new clients, appointed former Property Investment Research (PIR) associate director, Dugald Higgins, to manage its new direct property research division and added an additional investment analyst, Graeme Miller ...

GESB plans on hold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Western Australian public sector super fund, GESB's planned mutualisation process has again been shelved after the local government cited tax and bad financial market concerns. Western Australian treasurer, Troy Buswell said significant progress had ...

Telstra Super hires JANA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Telstra Super appointed JANA Investment Advisers as the fund's asset consultant, ending a 15-year relationship with Russell Investments. Martin Crowe, Telstra Super chief executive, said the fund decided to explore the market for an asset consultant ...

Austock fund added to netwealth wrap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Austock Asset Management's High Yield fund has been added to the Netwealth Investment Wrap suite. Jono Gourlay, Austock Asset Management business manager, said the netwealth platform targets boutique financial planning dealer groups which is also a ...