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Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...

AIG sells asset management to Pacific Century

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... AIG said in a press statement that it would sell a portion of its investment advisory and asset management business to Bridge Partners - a company owned by Pacific Century Group. Li, the son of Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-Shing, heads the group which ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

Industry pushes for super concessions for women

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... Superannuation Trustees, in recognition of Equal Pay Day, has voiced concerns that the government is still not doing enough to bridge the gap between the superannuation of men and women. When a woman files for divorce, the gap widens between the two ...

IOOF profits down, to divest life insurance...

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
IOOF has posted a 32 per cent drop in net profit after tax (NPAT) to $15.8 million for the last financial year as funds under management, administration and advice fell by $7 billion to $61 billion. The result represents the first profit announcement ...

NY fund blacklists Gazprom and Petrobras

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
The New York State Common Retirement Fund has pulled out $100 million of the fund's investments in nine companies including Gazprom, Oil & Natural Gas Corp and Petrobras on the back of a genocide report. The New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli ...

VFMC ex-chief to chair MCFS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... organisation such as MCFS with a real opportunity to make a difference." MCFS was established four years ago to provide a bridge between the academic community, government and the financial services industry. It has become acknowledged for its thought ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... WealthSmart and Macquarie Wrap for access by advisers and their clients. The fund, which was launched in November last year, is a bridge between holding a cash position while tapping into growth investing, said Hobart. "Regardless of the current circumstances ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. ...