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Pension deficits halts M&A activity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
A UK pension report from Mercer revealed equity market volatility has wiped off more than $130 billion of the value of FTSE 350 pension schemes, potentially hindering merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across Europe. Pension deficits was one of the ...

Watson Wyatt hires ex Aon consultant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
Watson Wyatt Australia appointed Andrew Povah to its Sydney based investment consulting team. Povah has more than nine years experience in superannuation and investments after previously working at Aon Consulting in Australia and the UK. In this role ...

LUCRF appoints Bluedoor for admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
LUCRF Super appointed wealth management software developer, Bluedoor Technologies to provide the fund's administration technology service and boost its productivity levels by 30 per cent. LUCRF Super will use Bluedoor Technologies administration platform ...

Aus Ethical World Trust beats benchmark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
Australian Ethical Investment is celebrating the one year anniversary of its World Trust after it outperformed its benchmark by 100 basis points since inception. The World Trust was launched on August 2 amidst falling global stock markets and, as such ...

Perpetual and BT large cap five star; S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
Perpetual and BT Financial Group were both awarded a five star rating from Standard & Poor's for the firms' large cap concentrated Australian equities management ability. The research and ratings firm awarded the rating for each firms talent to select ...

HSBC contracts Allianz for insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
HSBC Bank Australia is partnering with Allianz Australia to provide general insurance products under the HSBC brand to the Australian market. HSBC previously provided insurance to the Australian market using a number of insurers. The bank's move to ...

CSRF chases alpha

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) awarded Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock Investment Management a $100 million mandate each to capture short-term equity market opportunities. The mandates were allocated to the BGI ...

Westpac FP turns to experience

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
Westpac Financial Planning plans to increase the number of experienced financial planners by more than 200 in three years and cut the number of entry level planning roles as part of a business restructure. The restructure also means the group is combining ...

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) ...

Frontier appoints analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting appointed Chris Coulthurst to analyst in the firm's infrastructure division. Coulthurst previously worked at South East Water as a senior officer - sustainable water solutions and, prior to that, worked at Sinclair Knight ...