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AIG takes group insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
AIG Life is moving its group insurance service online with eForm, an application process that will reduce administration workload and increase the number of applications that can be instantly approved. The eForm gathers all the mandatory underwriting ...

Northern Trust exposes fixed income assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Northern Trust's upgrades to its online reporting system promise to enable fixed income managers to accurately attribute performance in fixed income investments. The firm's Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS) team improved the reporting service ...

AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
AXA Group's Paris-based asset management business is providing its expertise across European property, private equity, structured finance and fund of hedge funds to Australian institutions. Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) director of Australian ...

AWM posts $65m profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
Australian Wealth Management (AWM) posted a full year net profit of $65 million to the end of June, its seventh consecutive increase in profit despite tough market conditions. AWM's net profit after tax increased by 13 per cent over a one year period ...

Max Super eyes FHSA market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
Gen X and Y focused online super fund, max Super is developing its own version of the First Home Saver Account (FHSA). David Williams, head of max Super, said although it was unfortunate the government took the FHSA out of superannuation, it did present ...

Challenger and AXA sign up to Liquidnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Challenger Financial Services Group and AXA Rosenberg Investment Management (Japan) joins the growing band of fund managers that have signed up to trading platform Liquidnet. David Klinger, Liquidnet Asia managing director, said the demand from Asia ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Leading fund manager QIC has decided to label "commodities" as a separate class in its portfolios after it observed that traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found ...

State Street's private equity hits $110bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Rising institutional investor demand for private equity assets has resulted in State Street's private equity fund service's assets under administration to increase by 20 per cent to $110 billion since the division was formed last year. Jack Klinck ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... price index contract was 95 points lower at 4906 on a volume of 15,935 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said there was a "general negative" view around the local bourse today. "Given such a strong decline on Wall ...

Deutsche smashes Euro ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Deutsche Bank's European based exchange traded funds (ETF) platform raised more than $25 billion of assets in 18 months, making it the third largest ETF provider in Europe by assets under management. The bank's platform, db x-trackers, now has a 14 ...