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Mercer's self employed advice strategy falls short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Mercer Wealth Solutions' strategy to sign self-employed financial planning practices has netted only two practices in a year, well short of the expected 12 practices flagged last year. Mercer Wealth Solutions launched its self-employed financial planning ...

Van Eyk appoints CEO and board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Financial planning research and ratings firm, van Eyk, has appointed Mark Thomas as chief executive, while Stephen van Eyk, managing director and chair, has moved to be executive chair. The firm also appointed two new non-executive directors including ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Phew! That was a close call. Just when you thought Wall Street has run out of puff, a tail wind comes to lift its sails. The Dow and the S&P 500 spent most of last night's trading activity in the red. For most of the session, investors were cashing ...

Super funds battle for ASFA awards

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
AMP Financial Services, First State Super and Sunsuper are among the 16 finalists jostling for awards that recognise excellence in communicating with fund members and industry stakeholders. The awards, to be held in Sydney, at The Ivy this Thursday ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Move on people...nothing to see here. Move on. Aussie investors relying on overnight movements on Wall Street to show them what today's trading activity has in store for them in their own market - up, down or upside down - would have to (gulp!) rely ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
CommInsure has launched WriteAway, a new straight through processing platform for risk insurance that could provide financial planners with an underwriting decision within 20 to 30 minutes. The group said that following a review of existing insurance ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Active Aussie equities managers will continue to win mandates with the $14 billion REST Super as the fund said it was sticking with its active manager core, despite several other big industry funds allocating bigger mandates to passive managers. Damian ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
Super fund and investment manager activism against listed company boards is misdirected, according to a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), Lynn Ralph, managing director at Cameron Ralph ...

UN PRI gets tough and de-lists signatories

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) is kicking out around six signatories next month for failing to fulfill their reporting duties. James Gifford, executive director of the PRI, said the signatories would be de-listed after ...