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Snowball acquisitions feeding bottom line

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
Snowball Group has reported an after tax profit of over $1.7 million for the June 2006 year, with earnings per share increasing 150 per cent from $1.20 to $3.00 on the back of a continuing acquisitions strategy. The results were fed by strong revenue ...

Barclays wins S&P top prize

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has taken out the fund manager of the year award at Standard & Poor's annual awards ceremony, held in Sydney last night in association with Morningstar-owned Investor Weekly and IFA trade publications. Also picking up ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
For superannuation fund trustees arguing that scale is a panacea, as far as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
Ian Macoun, co-founder of Perennial, said he would be doing it all over again with the launch of a new "house of boutiques", something he argues will be the best solution for boutique managers who struggle in other ownership structures. The new business ...

Rice Warner adds to team

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
Rice Warner Actuaries has added a new principal to its group through the appointment of a former senior AMP actuary and manager. Richard Weatherhead, formerly AMP head of actuarial risk products and development, has joined the newly separated and renamed ...

State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
State Super Financial Services Australia (State Super) has awarded Australian equities mandates to Fidelity for $150 million and to Alliance Bernstein for $300 million. State Super general manager investment and chief investment officer, Oscar Fabian ...

SMSFs most flexible option post Budget: Mariner

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... to change their ownership proportions they can simply transfer units to one another. Mariner technical services manager, Kate Anderson, reported that by using the SMSF option, rather than a public offer fund, investors can access all their funds for ...

Japanese sign on to Aussie services provider

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
An Australian software and services provider's investment management system has been selected by one of Japan's largest asset managers, Nissay Asset Management (NAM) to streamline its funds management operations onto one integrated platform. Charles ...

Forget industry funds, focus on advice: AFA

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has implored the advice community to forget any factional fighting with industry funds and put the value of advice squarely back into the spotlight. AFA chief executive officer, Richard Kilipin, said the financial ...

Suncorp increases market share and profits

... and improving market shares," he said. "Our fundamentals, particularly around credit and risk, have not been compromised." Kate Hage