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Collins challenges planner model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Financial planners could become irrelevant if they don't change the way they deliver advice to baby boomer and retired clients, according to Tom Collins, The Tom Collins Consultancy managing director. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Collins ...

AMP Capital promotes Judd

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
AMP Capital Investors has promoted its Global Direct Property fund manager Chris Judd to head of property funds management. Judd has 20 years experience in property funds management and previously held a number of senior positions across unlisted and ...

MLC slashes premiums

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
MLC has reduced insurance premiums across its Personal Protection Portfolio (PPP) and Life Cover Super (LCS) by as much as 15 per cent, in line with its ongoing strategy to make insurance more affordable. The firm's LCS and PPP premiums have been reduced ...

Industry super funds spearhead recovery

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
MTAA Super, Westscheme and Cbus Super lead the pack of best performing default investment options for workplace superannuation funds over a three period year to April this year, according to Rainmaker Information data. The latest SelectingSuper data ...

Defence housing to double pipeline to $3bn

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... capital program is $1.3 billion. We have a couple of initiatives in the pipeline to double that to $2.5 to $3 billion," said Michael Del Gigante, managing director of DHA. "We've been around a long time, and we'll be here a long time. It's a national ...

ING buys Pinnacle Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
ING Australia's spending spree continues after it purchased Melbourne based financial planning dealer group Pinnacle Partners. The dealer group will be integrated into the ING Australia owned Millennium3, which bought Zurich Financial Services Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... among oil and resources stocks flowing from higher prices for oil and most base metals. Austock senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the banks had taken the brunt of the fall, after figures out today showed that high interest rates and rising ...

Franklin Templeton adds to real estate division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA) has appointed Larissa Herczeg as vice president of its private real estate division. Prior to this position, Herczeg worked at Credit Suisse Customised Fund Investment Group (CFIG) as vice president and ...

Allianz opens Mid East office and funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
Allianz Global Investors is opening an office in Bahrain and launching two Shariah compliant equity funds to extend its investment and product distribution capabilities to the oil rich countries of the Middle East. The Bahrain based Allianz office will ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
JPMorgan joins top financial institutions ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Citi, and Macquarie Bank on the Yieldbroker online debt trading platform. Yieldbroker is a cooperatively owned venture between members that allows institutional investors to view up ...