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Stimulate your package

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... $100,000 they could be eligible to receive up to $900 tax free. Western Australian-based Assurity Financial Planning adviser, Doug Horsford, said although the government would prefer Australians to spend it, he had told some clients to invest it in superannuation. ...

WW adds new portfolio advisory role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Watson Wyatt has hired Peter Ryan-Kane to fill a new role as head of portfolio advisory across Asia Pacific. Ryan-Kane returns to the global consulting firm after more than two years at Credit Suisse working across product development, investment solutions ...

Fry and Watton win AIST Trustee award

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
Tasplan chairman Doug Fry and Vision Super trustee director Bill Watton are the joint winners of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST)'s 2009 Trustee of the Year Award. Fry and Watton, who is also a director at VicSuper, were presented ...

Van Eyk enhances risk ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Financial planning research firm, van Eyk has implemented a new risk ratings process to make the rating easier to understand and monitor. According to a statement, the risk ratings will be the same as that used by van Eyk to produce existing fund ratings ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
'Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less US$165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?' US President ...

QIC property execs depart

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... (managing director, QIC Properties Ltd Pty) and John Steffensen (head of domestic funds), said the firm. QIC chief executive Doug McTaggart said the departing pair are leaving QIC's real estate portfolio and team "in very good shape". "Over the past ...

Advisers happier with wrap service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... with the reporting service. More than 90 per cent of advisers said the platform's level of investment choice was "positive". Doug Chang, Macquarie Wrap head of product, said adviser demand is a key driver on what the firm provides on Macquarie Wrap's ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Financial planners must drop the traditional 'set and forget' strategy and become more dynamic to ensure their client portfolios are able to deal with changing macro economic conditions, according to van Eyk. Nigel Wilkin-Smith, van Eyk head of the ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
In a market that fell by as much as 50 per cent last year, Magellan Global bucked the trend by posting a 1.3 per cent loss, pushing it to the top of the league tables of overseas shares managers for 2008. As a fund manager that has only been around ...

Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
High conviction fund managers look set to reap the rewards of a sluggish Aussie equities market, according to new research by van Eyk. Soaring fee levels have generally discouraged and disappointed investors in the high conviction space, compared to ...