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AUI appoints ex-CFS head

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed a former head of investment sales at Colonial First State to the newly created role in distribution. Cameron Dickman is the new head of distribution at a time when the group posted a record 60 per cent ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

Colonial First State, Macquarie and AMP respectively are the three largest Australian fund managers in an industry that grew over 20 per cent to more than $650 billion last year, according to the latest Pensions & Investments and Watson Wyatt study ...

Fees drive super switchers

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
A new survey from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has stated the majority of people who switch funds do so due to brand power and fees. The survey, titled 'Super Decisions: Communicating with Customers and Effective Disclosure' ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
Things are heating up in Australia and it's not just our share market and the rising value of the dollar, current greenhouse gas emissions are set to fry the climate making Australia dryer and hotter over the next 20-60 years. According to a report ...

S&P upgrades Global Value Fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has upgraded boutique manager Global Value Investors' (GVI) GVI Global Industrial Share Fund to three stars. GVI, a joint venture between Investors Mutual and Treasury Group, is a global equity manager with a dividend ...

Asgard extends income cover

Asgard Wealth Solutions is the latest wealth management group to revamp its insurance offering by providing an extended income cover through its corporate and personal super products starting next month. The group has announced that it will offer 'salary ...

GESB trebles co-contributions after campaign

WA-based super fund GESB struck a winning formula after its 'Feed Your Super' campaign attracted three times more member co-contributions than it expected. The campaign is a fairly straightforward strategy where members are sent emails and snail mail ...

Big improvements in Australian corporate governance: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Despite popular perception that Australian companies lag the world on corporate governance (CG), a new study has found a very high awareness and real willingness by companies to constructively engage. The report, "The changing roles and responsibilities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
SYDNEY - The Australian sharemarket is likely to start the morning's trade lower, with a flat lead from Wall Street and not much positive activity among the metal prices overseas. At 0706 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price ...

Industry fund ads off target?

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... with 'Barefoot Investor' Scott Pape, which included a micro-site, as well as plans to introduce podcasts and an e-newsletter. Cam Cimino, marketing manager at AXA Australia, agreed that people sought information via the web and said AXA would also look ...