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TAL Direct appoints marketing head

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... Engineering from Cambridge University. TAL Direct operates the InsuranceLine brand, plus numerous "white label" alliances producing life insurance products and services for businesses such as Virgin Money, NIB and AFG.

Retail MySuper to put NFPs on back foot

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
MySuper will result in a flip in market dynamics, with the retail sector producing the cheapest default products and industry funds forced to a defensive stance on costs, a former Future Fund boss has warned. Labelling ING Direct's newly launched Living ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Government Investment Funds Amendment (Ethical Investments) Bill 2011. The companies that the Future Fund invests in are not producing, "paperclips, dual-use items or things that are not specific to nuclear weapons or their delivery systems," said associate ...

Buy-right and equity managers will deliver income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... growing proportion of superannuation assets being owned by retirees is re-orienting investment product design towards producing income, but delivering this in a sideways yet volatile capital market requires investment managers to change their approach. ...

Zurich introduces new equity income fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... to global equity markets with enhanced levels of income and reduced downside risk. The fund is comprised of 40 income-producing, international stocks from a range of geographical and business sectors. Philip Kewin, general manager retail life and investments ...

Real estate suffers as Europe goes DC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... yields to service the need. "Why am I not being encouraged to think about the fact that, actually, there are income-producing characteristics that could make a contribution to my liability-matching portfolio?" Trickett said. "I can assure you that, at ...

Goodman partners with Malaysian pension fund

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... largest pension funds, will hold the majority share. "Major global investors continue to target high-quality income producing investments in a structure that provides access to a specialist team," said Goodman Group chief executive, Greg Goodman. The ...

Instos missing ETF options

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... managers to change sector allocations, market-time trades or deviate from the benchmark index as they see fit, thereby producing returns that may deviate from the underlying index.

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... four A's instead of three. Why not? Ex-RBA chief and ex-Commonwealth Treasury chief tells us why not, "... the idea of producing the budget surplus in a situation where there's acknowledged economic weaknesses and calls for reducing interest rates just ...

FOFA will not be delayed: Minter Ellison

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... had no interest in delaying the process. Minter Ellison also suggested that a fee-for-service model poses the risk of producing tired advice for customers who don't fall into the top-end bracket. "Advice, whether it's over the internet or over the phone ...