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PIS Beijing office a world first

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Australia's largest financial advisory group, Professional Investment Services (PIS), became the first non-Chinese wealth management service in China last week when it opened its new offices in Beijing. The new company, called Bo Jin, will operate in ...

Asteron launches Lifeguard range with market-first PDS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
Asteron launched its new Lifeguard range of life insurance policies, showcasing reduced prices, four new options and a market-first compact "reference to web" PDS. The new range includes cancer cover, a pregnancy premium waiver, premium-free child cover ...

Fund manager transparency getting worse

Fund managers are getting so sophisticated with their PR that there's more spin than substance to the raft of information they churn out today compared with a decade ago. Angela Ashton, head of research at IWL, said that it's gotten so bad fund managers ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
The Australian share market has followed Wall Street to begin recovering from yesterday's horror as investors sift through the wreckage in search of bargains. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 12.1 points to 5844.6, while the all ordinaries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
The ANZ job series has fallen this month by 0.1 per cent after a large rise of 11.8 per cent last month, with the total number of advertisements in January 2007 21.8 per cent higher than a year ago. Newspaper advertisements which have been on the slide ...

Optimum gets a pre-Christmas product upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
Asteron has announced a range of improvements to its Optimum corporate and personal super platforms, ranging from new investment choices, family-linked accounts and improved insurance cover. Jane Power, Asteron's head of product and marketing, said ...

Avoid excessive hedging: EQT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
While debates continue about what level of hedging is best, the point is that as investors push more money overseas due to local capacity constraints hedging strategies will become central, particularly as we increasingly distinguish between what drives ...

Tyndall appoints new MD

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
Tyndall has appointed ex-Asteron chief operating officer, corporate and distribution, Brett Himbury as managing director to replace Barry Sheehan. Himbury will report to Dennis Fox, chief executive of parent Promina Financial Services, and will be responsible ...

Planning starts at 30: MLC

Gen-Xers or thirty-somethings can save as much as $10,000 per year by getting financial advice much earlier rather than later in life, according to new research from MLC. MLC technical manager, Andrew Lawless, said that tapping into the overlooked segment ...

Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
A key part of Suncorp's merger with Promina relies on spending $395 million to integrate their information technology infrastructure in return for securing savings of $225 million within two years. Part of the challenge is Suncorp already manages a ...