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UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
UK based, Norwich Union is running a competition targeting university graduates to find the next generation of financial advisers. Norwich Union, soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Last night the US Federal Reserve made Wall Street an offer it could not refuse - 1.25 trillion freshly minted greenbacks. After heading south for most of the trading session, the S&P 500 changed direction and headed for a more than 2 per cent gain ...

IMCA debates investment risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The Investments Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia has invited the heads of various investment consulting firms, including overseas-based expert Don Ezra from Russell, to a roundtable discussion on investment risk to be held in Sydney ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
The days when executives get rewards-for-failure could soon be over if legislators back radical remuneration reforms proposed by a governance expert, which includes capping 'golden parachutes' and issuing share options that can only be cashed out after ...

SimCorp upgrades risk mgmt tech

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
SimCorp has released the next version of the firm's SimCorp Dimension product, version 4.5, which focuses on alleviating risk across front, middle and back offices of investment management firms. The software has been enhanced with multi factor risk ...

S&P launches carbon index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index to measure the performance of large cap US companies with low carbon emissions. The index closely tracks the S&P 500 and is rebalanced every quarter whereby stocks in the S&P 500 are ...

CFS turns off the lights

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Lights out, please - Colonial First State is once again sponsoring Earth Hour as part of its commitment to being a sustainable company. CFS has been a key sponsor of the event since inception. As part of this year's Earth Hour exercise, the fund manager ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
'Job losses worst for 18 years' (AFR). 'Australian Jobless Rate Climbs to 4-Year High of 5.2%' (Bloomberg). Boy oh boy, here we go again. Each time Australia's job numbers are updated, we get the media's display of their masochistic tendencies. We are ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...