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UBS launches soft com and Asia prod

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
UBS launched its Global Access Fund to provide self managed super funds and other investors exposure to the soft commodities and the emerging markets. The UBS Global Access Fund is a structured product that provides exposure to the UBS Bloomberg CMCI ...

Agribusiness needs careful planning

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... theorists say - buy a business where you've got pricing power," he said. Meanwhile Count Financial's chief investment officer, Michael Spurr, said the firm did not generally recommend agribusiness investments to all clients as they tended to be long ...

Zurich extends political risk insurance to EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia is providing political risk insurance for carbon credit projects in the emerging markets for the first time. This development will protect companies against risk of a range of government actions that might prevent ...

Finding integrity in finance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... executives of the Investment and Financial Services Association among others at the Deloitte-hosted event. According to Michael Borgholz, chief executive of Alliance Bernstein Australia and New Zealand, the wealth management and insurance industries ...

ING A rejects munitions claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
ING Australia has hit back at claims that it invests in companies that manufacture cluster munitions, stating it applied strict standards that prevented investments in such practices and that it is already a signatory of the Equator Principles. Last ...

Rainmaker Marketing Awards celebrate best of the best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
Wealth management's best and brightest marketers, advertisers and business development managers celebrated the 14th Rainmaker Marketing Symposium this week. Wayne Sullivan, Sunsuper marketing manager was awarded the Rainmaker Marketer of the Year in ...

Macquarie EM infra index could become benchmark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Macquarie Research Equities launched Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure and Development Index (MEMIDI) could become an industry benchmark for monitoring the performance of emerging market infrastructure companies. The index, which is calculated ...

AIG Life promotes two

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
AIG Life has promoted Damien Green to general manager of insurance and Damien Mu to head of group insurance. Mu previously worked as national client development manager at AIG Life and replaces Green who previously held the position. Meanwhile, Green ...

FPA launches PI insurance for members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) members will have more professional indemnity insurance options after the industry body selected Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) to launch its new Pro PI service. JLT is the largest insurance broker in the Asia ...

Principal Global expands insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Principal Global Investors (Australia) has appointed Cameron Sinclair to director of institutional sales. Sinclair previously held a number of senior institutional sales management roles at ING Investment Management and, prior to that, worked in institutional ...