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Land of the rising small caps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
Morgan Stanley's global small cap portfolio is steering away from Australia's resource sector and refocusing on Japan's value stocks, according to managing director and co-head of international and global small cap value strategies, Margaret Naylor. ...

Govt to address underinsurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... the government needs to work more closely with the industry to increase public awareness on the benefits of insurance. Michael d'Apice, general manager at Austbrokers Financial Solutions, said he did not agree that the same level of complexity found ...

What happened to baby platforms?

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The decline in popularity of baby or cut down wraps could be due to the mixed feelings among product managers about their relevance to today's investors. Alan Kenny, general manager of product and investment services at Colonial First State said FirstChoice ...

Brakes on reverse mortgages

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
Although the reverse mortgage market grew strongly in recent years, a new Datamonitor report has shown signs that the sector is slowing down. The Reverse Mortgages in Australia and New Zealand 2007 report found reverse mortgage advances increased by ...

MTAA super revs up retirement seminars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... super works in order to then have some meaningful input into their wealth accumulation and retirement planning decisions," Michael Delaney, principal executive officer at MTAA, said. Delaney said the seminar program was created in response to the demand ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... than 700 factories, where inspectors have already found approximately 20 per cent of factories failed to make the grade. Michael O'Sullivan, Secretary General of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, told the BBC that closing factories in a war on product ...

Pengana wins $150m QIC mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has awarded a mandate worth more than $150 million to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility fund. Alvin Wilkinson, principal portfolio manager of Global Volatility at Pengana, said the mandate was the product of ...

Investec backs MainstreamBPO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Investec Bank Australia has provided a $10 million debt facility to MainstreamBPO, enabling MainstreamBPO to buy Group Benefits and pursue its expansion strategy to become a back office processing service provider to the financial institutions. Group ...

Centric Wealth appoints new directors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... David MacKenzie, Alan Schwartz and Russel Pillemer all appointed non-executive directors. Meanwhile Glen Castensen and Michael Pillemer have been appointed joint chief executive officers and Mike Dunne and John Hart have become alternate directors. Davis ...

Seniors vote against Westpoint

... implement a national awareness and education campaign with information on investments," said National Seniors chief executive, Michael O'Neill. "To provide individual advice, National Seniors wants a 'one-stop-shop' for older Australians that provides ...