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Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
TOWER has appointed former MetLife managing director, Gavin Pearce, as its new chief executive officer of investments in Australia. Pearce, formerly both managing director of MetLife Insurance Australia and the former Citicorp Life Insurance business ...

Fidelity Aust Equities Fund upgraded on third birthday

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Fidelity's Australian Equities Fund has had its rating upgraded by Morningstar after growing its local investment team and laying down a track record for its first three years. Morningstar has moved the fund to a highly recommended rating, up from investment ...

Hyperion shuffles the top of the deck

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Hyperion Asset Management has undertaken a high profile re-shuffle of its board as well as announcing a new $30 million mandate. Hyperion has appointed former Perennial chief investment officer and chairman and managing director of newly launched 'house ...

Zurich corporate super businesses for sale

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Zurich Australia is selling off its corporate superannuation businesses Zurich i.super_invest Superannuation (i.super) and Finium Super Master Plan, informing staff this morning that management are currently in discussions with a "number of interested ...

HSBC alternatives eyes off Australian entry

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
HSBC Bank's Hong Kong based alternative investments group is the next in line among an array of international hedge fund managers lining up to enter the Australian market. Speaking at last month's Portfolio Construction Forum conference, senior director ...

Praemium appoints Qld state manager

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Listed portfolio administration provider Praemium has appointed a new state manager for Queensland. Gwen Chew will take on the business development role and will aim to build the business through managing existing client relationships and sourcing new ...

InvestAhead to merge into Centric Wealth

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Sydney based financial planning, risk insurance and corporate benefit services provider InvestAhead will merge with larger financial planning firm Centric Wealth. The merger will see InvestAhead's three directors, Chandra Wirasinha, Mike Galgut and ...

Costello puts super and savings in the hands of kids

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
School children can now look forward to spending, saving, constructing houses and earning their own brand of currency called "mutual" by doing environmentally friendly activities in their school hours, according to Treasurer Peter Costello. In a radio ...

Alternatives appetite triggers Russell re-shuffle

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
Russell Investment Group has reshuffled its Australian alternative assets team and brought on board a new team member in response to the increasingly aggressive appetite of Australian superannuation funds for alternative investments. Russell's director ...