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Tower wins First State Super, ousts MetLife

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... insurer to First State Super, will see its market share drop from 7.4 per cent to 3.6 per cent after the deal - dropping four places down from fifth to ninth group insurer in Australia. MetLife's number of members covered for death and TPD halves from ...

Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... points. Changing investment fortunes has seen funds such as MTAA Super, Military Super and Westscheme climb 15 or more places, already putting them in the zone of major retail platforms, said Rainmaker. Rainmaker said continued recovery in property is ...

Future Fund ex-strategy chief opens Scarce Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... but there was an 18 per cent yield there and yet global capital is pretty uninterested in it, I think there are plenty of places that represents really good opportunity like that but, unfortunately, many investors are scared to do something different," ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... It would not squeeze so much that it chokes. So there we have it, misplaced fears now being put back into their rightful places. But more than these, things are also beginning to add up in the world's biggest economy. Let me count the ways: The Conference ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... workers could be employed with US$600 billion? Do you, punk? My calculations show that this would create 14.8 million new places - exactly equal to the 14.8 million counted as jobless in the October household survey data. Now think the boost in spending ...

Net tightens around share trading: ASIC

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... has demonstrated, it remains essential that investors and companies have confidence in our equity markets as efficient places to raise capital - and where secondary trading is fair, orderly, and transparent," he said.

Count selects Lonsec and IRESS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... part of a financial planning dealer group was one of the reasons why it was compatible with Count's business model. "Count places strong emphasis on its robust research process...the research we source from our external research house is the starting ...

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... these economies. "Only around 10 per cent of the world resources industry is in Australia and we see major opportunities in places like Mongolia, Africa, Latin America and Kazakhstan, which the CFSGAM team is very well positioned to exploit," said Tim ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... RecruitmentSuper - returned 10.8 per cent in its default growth option for the year to 30th of June. The fund said that the result places it among the top quartile of industry super funds with similar risk profiles. By comparison, the S&P ASX300 accumulation ...

Fidelity Australia nearly doubles FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... clients almost doubling over the past year, and advisers increasingly using its products. The company, which jumped 10 places to be the 29th largest fund manager in Australia, was crowned Australian Asset Management Company of the Year 2010 by Asia's ...