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Pinnacle taps private equity demand

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Pinnacle attracts two key private equity execs from AMP to run its newly-launched fund at a time when many investors are starting to trawl the market for the best private equity investments. Pinnacle Investment Management yesterday announced the establishment ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Media coverage of Australia's employment statistics had been unanimously negative. But is it? The ink has barely dried on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about ...

ASSET Super to review value bias

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
ASSET Super has invested in two new managers, Alleron and Tyndall, and is reviewing the 'slight value bias' of its domestic equities portfolio as part of an in-depth analysis of its overall investment strategy. John Paul, chief executive of the $1.32 ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

Superpartners to push for paperless super admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Superannuation admin provider Superpartners plans to invest $70 million into replacing its core administration systems and other IT processes in a bid to become "100 per cent electronic" in three years' time. While there have been earlier reports about ...

PLUM's new chief to push comms

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Plum Financial Services' new managing director Paul Carter flags plans to boost its communication campaign and delay some investment projects scheduled for next year to 2010 to steer Plum through a difficult 2009. Carter, who took over the reigns from ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
CFD provider IG Markets will spend $5 million on a local campaign as part of a global push to raise public awareness of the FTSE-listed brand in Australia. IG Markets' country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted ...

Is super sexist?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
An IOOF-owned super fund launched two months ago is targeting female investors and future retirees in its latest financial literacy campaign, which includes a report titled 'Is super sexist? Things to think about for women.' The super fund's report ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...