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Prevention better than the cure: Asteron

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Life insurer Asteron spearheads a new preventative healthcare program that aims to slash the cost of insurance to the average Australian and finally put a stop to insurance being seen as a 'grudge expense'. Yesterday the group launched an online customer ...

Advisers let down by MMs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Advisers have been let down by under performing multi-manager investments, putting pressure on advisers to rethink how they use their fund research. Robert McGregor, asset consultant to Astarra Funds told the AFA annual conference that "you can outsource ...

Astarra reaches $1 billion milestone

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Fund manager Astarra Asset Management has reached its $1 billion in funds under management milestone. In a press statement, Sydney-based Astarra attributed the growth of the firm to financial advisers outsourcing their asset management business to Astarra ...

FTSE4Good deletes 15 from series

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
The FTSE4Good index series review resulted in 15 companies mostly based in Japan and the US being deleted from the series typically for failing to meet human and labour rights and environmental criteria. Japan-based companies Canon, Ibiden, Koito Manufacturing ...

PPM opens fund to more Australians

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Boutique investment manager Private Portfolio Managers (PPM) is opening its doors to more investors through the PPM York Super Fund. PPM currently offers tailored individually managed accounts (IMA) investment strategies to investors looking to invest ...

Asteron expands sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Stewart Pender and Jarrad Wilson have been appointed sales development consultants at Asteron. Pender comes from a background in financial services recruitment, specialising in financial planning. In his new role Pender will be working in partnership ...

ING appoints life risk sales BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
ING Australia appointed Gerard Hayes as business development manager - life risk in Western Australia. Hayes has more then a decade of financial services experience, joining ING Australia from ITC where he worked as a regional sales manager for Western ...

Suncorp and CMC sign share trading deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Suncorp Bank teamed up with CMC Markets to provide online share trading to its 13,500 customers. Tim Buckett, general manager of customer development at Suncorp Bank, said the bank selected the online share trading firm because of the tools and education ...

Macq prepares for longevity risk

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Australian investors who are dying for longevity-type products widely available in the US but not locally will soon see a raft of these products hit the shelves, with Macquarie Funds Group setting up an entire team purpose-built for this one product ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Australian Christian Superannuation (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David ...