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Suncorp's Fox retires

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
Suncorp group executive wealth management, Dennis Fox, steps down after 35 years in financial services. Retiring on July 31 this year, Fox will be replaced by Geoffrey Summerhayes who was most recently Australian general manager specialised businesses ...

AFA selects Alexis for PI cover

After a 12-month process, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has handpicked Alexis Insurance Brokers to give its members much needed help in choosing the right PI cover ahead of a new government ruling which raises adviser PI costs by as much ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Investor interest in Australian residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) has dropped from $45 billion last year to virtually zero early this year - but a model overhaul and cash injection from super funds could pull the sector out of the doldrums. ...

FIRST Super, TISS and PPWSF to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
Industry superannuation funds FIRST Super, TISS and PPWSF are merging on July 1 to form First Super - a new $1.5 billion fund servicing members in the furniture, pulp, paper, and timber industries. The merger will see the $522 million Furniture Industry ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Once regarded as a Bohemian backwater, Slovakia has become one of the most stellar perfoming economies of east-central Europe courtesy of policy reform, foreign investment and robust industrial expansion. The Slovak economy bucked the slowdown experienced ...

Adviser charged on $48k theft

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
Perth financial adviser Annemieke De Boer was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment and suspended for two years after pleading guilty to stealing $48,000 from a former client. The sentence was the result of a joint investigation conducted by ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased a stake in the alternative equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

Watson Wyatt appoints new global head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
International consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide has appointed Carl Hess as global head of investment consulting, effective from 1 July 2008. Hess will replace Roger Urwin who takes on a newly created role focusing on the global development and ...

Magellan Global mirrors Berkshire strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Research firm Lonsec has rated Magellan Financial Group's (MFG) Global Fund 'recommended' and noted it adopts a similar investment style synonymous to that of the sage of Omaha. Launched in July last year, the Magellan Global Fund equities portfolio ...