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Growth bond plays tax trump card

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
AMP has launched the AMP Growth Bond, a "tax paid" investment that allows investors to accumulate wealth with no lock in periods. The AMP Growth Bond is an investment or insurance bond style of where tax is paid on investment earnings within the product ...

Liquidity jitters raise income yield

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
The running yield across Putnam's income funds has trebled from less than 1 per cent above cash to more than 3 per cent above cash and, according to the fund manager, the fixed income market is throwing up opportunities it hasn't seen in 20 years. "Many ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... businesses whose credit they are buying. With credit hard to come by their sense is that now is the time to assert themselves. AMP Capital Investors head of credit markets Jeff Brunton said the recent insistence on greater disclosure was a reflection ...

Choice-of-fund members jump 81pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... member. AustralianSuper led the table with a 14.77 per cent market share of choice members (that use SuperChoice) followed by AMP with a 9.86 per cent slice and industry fund REST bagging the third spot with a 6.19 per cent slice. Easily recognisable ...

Finance recruiters keen for more

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... which will go on until Friday across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Deloitte, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, AMP, Suncorp, Rabobank, AXA, and Bank of Queensland are some of the big names participating in the event. According to Kaplan ...

SmartStream on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... firm casts its focus on growing its Australian base. SmartStream, whose clients in Australia include industry heavyweights AMP, ING and Vanguard Investments, appointed Richard Cummings as regional director for SmartStream's Asia Pacific operations in ...

AMP Cap hires Asian stock specialist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
AMP Capital Investors appointed former Maple Brown Abbott portfolio manager, Ragavan Sivanesarajah, to portfolio manager, Asian equities. Sivanesarajah previously worked at Maple Brown Abbott as a portfolio manager and equity analyst for five years ...

AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... is the former chief executive of Cbus and De Salis worked as an adviser to former prime minister Paul Keating and later for AMP. The new appointments could be perceived as strengthening Weaven's influence over the merged group. AustralianSuper may be ...

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... Do we want the money to come to Sydney or do we want Australia to be the face of globally growing international brands?" As AMP Capital Investors' managing director Stephen Dunne highlighted, "Asset growth in Asia is estimated to be $3 trillion in five ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Thousands of planners are at risk of losing their industry accreditation if they haven't complied with a little known industry guideline on trail fees that took effect this year. Two years ago, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) introduced four ...