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New resources, fresh ads for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
The Financial Planning Association is helping advisers battle the financial crisis with a new resource centre for its members and a "Value of Advice" campaign targeted towards consumers. The FPA announced today that it had launched the Market Volatility ...

Storm ramps up HostPLUS media exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
The $7 billion industry fund HostPLUS has rounded up a good year of brand and media exposure via its sponsorship of rugby league team, Melbourne Storm. In the latest S-Comm report, produced by research company Repucom, the Melbourne Storm jersey is ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

HOSTPLUS tackles Qld with Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
Industry super fund, HOSTPLUS is using its sponsorship of the successful Melbourne Storm rugby league club to assist its membership drive into the Queensland superannuation market. Speaking at the Association Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
Local fund managers have the right skills and resources to make Australia the financial services hub in Asia and beyond but taking on that mantle doesn't necessarily mean the money has to be managed at home. Speaking at the IFSA conference yesterday ...

Fund call centres the weakest link

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Super funds call centres have proven to be the weakest link in a fund's marketing mix, new research shows. Despite being the main hub of communication between a fund and its members, call centres are far measuring their performance customer satisfaction ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has come a long way since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
Despite having 9 per cent of the world's proven oil reserves, Abu Dhabi, the biggest of the seven United Arab Emirates (UAEs) is still looking for outside investment to transform itself into an international capital city, industry-hub, and tourism Mecca. ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The cost of processing contributions associated with Australia's Choice of Fund system is around $20 to $30 million per year, and could reach $90 million by 2012, according to CitiStreet. The global retirement plan administrator revealed the findings ...