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Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Get shorty! Equity markets, commodity markets, corporate bond markets and all other riskier asset markets continue to extend their gains early in 2010. But somehow, the uptrend does not look as convincing as last year's rally. Are markets psyching themselves ...

Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Three leading super funds have supported calls for the industry to disclose executive pay the same way listed companies do, following the release of the Cooper report that asked whether super funds should adopt the same corporate governance rules as ...

Cooper Review calls for SMSF structure overhaul

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Cooper Review has challenged the SMSF sector on how it deals with illegal early release schemes, the credentials of accountants and financial planners that offer advice to SMSFs and whether certain financial assets currently allowed should be banned. ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Another month, another good jobs report. Yes, ladies and gents, Australia's labour market continues to improve. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest tally showing that jobs downunder increased by 31,200 in November ...

Zurich to roll out climate change training

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Past all the green rhetoric, one insurer is spending money to give insurance brokers proper training on climate change and how it could affect their clients' business. Insurance and investments group Zurich doesn't just walk the walk on climate change ...

Tower pursues more insurance mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Tower will aggressively tender for more mandates next year as the firm forecasts further super fund consolidation and insurance reviews to come, said Geoff Black, chief executive of group life and investments. Tower's $600 million deal with AustralianSuper ...

PIMCO to expand Australian product suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
PIMCO Australia is looking to launch a number of new products to the local market including the possibility of distributing products from its newly opened global equities business and also developing an Australian bond exchange traded fund (ETF). Peter ...

Equiti talks to planners regarding stakeholding

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Equiti is negotiating with a number of financial planning practices to give them equity stakes in the group's direct property funds management business. Darren Wise, executive director at Equiti Funds Management, said it has launched an ownership structure ...