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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... contracts. "When you look at the top 20, it's hard to find a decliner there," Austock Securities senior client advisor Michael Heffernan told AAP. "I think clearly one of the catalysts was the CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) result yesterday. The ...

Statewide appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
South Australian private sector super fund, Statewide Superannuation Trust has appointed Nicholas Begakis as chair. Begakis has been a director at Statewide Superannuation Trust for almost two years. He holds several other board positions including ...

ING appoints RetireInvest CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... executive Greg Dungar who leaves to "pursue other opportunities outside the business". RetireInvest's chief operating officer Michael Scutts also left the firm for similar reasons, according to a statement. "This appointment is about leveraging the existing ...

Everest B&B appoints RE

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Everest Babcock & Brown Investment Trust has appointed Trust subsidiary, Permanent Investment Management Limited as the fund's responsible entity (RE). Permanent Investment Management Limited was appointed after an extraordinary meeting of Everest Babcock ...

Gloves off ahead of APRA report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Sean Henaghan, investment director at AMP Capital Investors, said investment decisions were made that resulted in one of AMP's super investment options ranking among the worst performing default options according to SelectingSuper, but he said the firm ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

Storm takes fight online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Storm Financial founders Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis have opened a new website to fight and defend against various claims regarding their now-collapsed business. The website, www.cassimatis.com.au, features a quote; "My crusade is to find justice ...

FPA stops "highly offensive" ads

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has obtained a Federal Court injunction stopping Bannister Mansfield Financial Services and the firm's director from publishing ads featuring the FPA. The FPA's solicitors asked Bannister Mansfield Financial ...

HCL pushes governance practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
HCL Technologies is promoting its solid governance and transparency practices to clients and investors to distance the firm away from the events of the Satyam Computer Services scandal. S Premkumar, HCL Technologies global head of financial services ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...