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TOWER profit down, life business up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... electronic underwriting capability, Accelerate, which now processes almost 50 per cent of the financial adviser sales. "TOWER plans to continue to invest significantly in technology innovation and capability development," he said. Minto remains optimistic ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

PGI fund placed on FirstChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... member of the Principal Financial Group. Principal Global Investors manages $189.1 billion in assets primarily for retirement plans and other institutional clients. The firm offers expertise in equities, fixed income and real estate investments as well ...

Russell tops transition manager awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has been named the Transition Management Provider of the Year at the recent UK Pension Awards and won top rankings in the annual surveys conducted by PLANSPONSOR and Global Investor magazines. Russell was ranked "Best in Class" by ...

Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... possible]," said Carroll. Pengana sent out the notice to around 100 retail investors of the fund last week, detailing the plans of its closure. So far, the fund manager is not aware of any negative reaction from its investors, he said. Carroll stressed ...

Great Southern falls into administration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... realisations, which we had expected would generate over $200 million over the coming months. "Despite our comprehensive plans which included the listing of cattle stations for auction in June and the sale of other non-core land holdings and not withstanding ...

Salisbury beats FP recruitment targets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... financial advisers since the beginning of the financial year, four of those since the beginning of the calendar year, and plans to hire four more advisers before the end of June. In addition, Euvrard said the group's adviser income had risen 10 per cent ...

ASF names former S&P head as CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Australian economy. Small to medium sized businesses...rely upon diverse and affordable sources of credit," said Dalton. He plans to speak with policy makers on extending the AOFM program and permitting Australian banks to issue covered bonds. ASF represents ...

Local Govt Super overhauls intl eq, Aus equities next

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... the manager line up of its $990 million international equities portfolio to suit a "core and satellite" approach, and it plans to do the same with its $1 billion Australian equities portfolio next. Peter Lambert, the fund's chief executive, said the ...