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AXA appoints new GMs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
AXA Australia has created three new general manager roles in its distribution team, including positions in sales, national accounts and marketing and strategy. Tim Mitchell Adams has been appointed as general manager, sales. Paul Harrop has been appointed ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Greece is the word Greece and the US labour market dominated the financial headlines last week. Greece and its efforts to contain its widening budget deficit provides a forward view of how things could escalate from bad to worse and when debts go wild. ...

Hartsuyker takes aim at govt reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Luke Hartsuyker, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation, corporate law and consumer affairs, said the Government has failed to encourage Australians to invest in superannuation by creating an uncertain regulatory environment. Speaking ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Ouch! On days like these, an enticing photo of Miranda Kerr would go a long way in easing the pain. Someone please email me one! Now I understand why people around the world - and I would guess that they mainly belong in this industry - are crying out ...

RARE eyes Indian and Mexican assets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
RARE Infrastructure, which doubled its FUM from $834 million to $1.53 billion in 12 months, is buying up more assets in India and Mexico within its emerging markets portfolio. Sarah Shaw, senior investment analyst and portfolio manager - emerging markets ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation have appointed Elementum Advisors to manage a $140 million portfolio of catastrophe-linked securities. The initial size of the mandate will be $140 million million with potential to increase to $282 million. ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Running of the bulls. Peppered with undeniably wonderful set of numbers, Wall Street couldn't have it any other way overnight. The Dow closed 1.2 per cent higher - the biggest daily advance in about a month - the S&P 500 surged 1.4 per cent and the ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Three European pension funds with more than $500 billion in assets are using their investment muscle to force property companies and fund managers to stay on top of their environmental policies, following the release of a new green property benchmark. ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
It's still the economy stupid! Wall Street's attention had been diverted from watching and dissecting every piece of economic news to listening to words that comes out of politicians' mouths. Wall Street had been on edged ever since Obama and the Democrats ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
We knew 2010 would be challenging, but not this way. Not like this. Yes Virginia, we agreed that 2010 would be challenging. We thought it would be challenging because America would experience turtle-paced economic growth at best. We thought it would ...