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More aware but unlikely to switch super: CARE

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... post-choice. A quarter of respondents, however, said the introduction of choice had empowered them, encouraging them to be more active in managing their super as well as making them more aware of fees and performance issues. The survey also highlighted ...

Go overseas, but go carefully: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
Doing the rounds of Australia this week to promote its new open-ended funds, international property giant LaSalle Investment Management was talking up international property opportunities but warned investors to tread carefully. LaSalle said Australian ...

Life insurance still the big risk: ING

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2006
... of life risk, Helen Troup. Troup said that life insurers, financial planners and industry groups all needed to play an active part in raising awareness and addressing the problem. She said that products needed to be simpler and more readily accessible ...

Macq fund sizzles on high occupancy

... three months period with the fund set up late last year. "The strong first quarter results have been underpinned by MDPF's active leasing campaigns, which have successfully increased the Fund's occupancy rate from 93 per cent when the Fund was initially ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... according to Greider, and it was pension funds who were one of the hardest hit, a victim of their own failure to be more active in their shareholdings. In the future, he said, they would need to be far more active in managing corporate outcomes, and ...

Aurora to IPO $150 million buy-write trust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... is launching an initial public offer for its new listed Aurora Buy-Write Income Trust. Aurora said the trust will use an active strategy of selling exchange traded call options over a geared portfolio from the S&P/ASX 100. The buy-write strategy comes ...

Education drives choice: Plum

... educational seminars across Australia. "As a result, we've seen 76 per cent of Plum Superannuation Fund members making an active investment choice. This shows we are getting the right messages through and successfully engaging and educating our members," ...

Perennial wins AUSfund mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... access to. "AUSfund's decision to invest into Perennial introduces a growth manager into the fund thereby introducing some active style diversification. We look forward to investing into Perennial using cashflow and to developing our relationship with ...

State Street celebrates 20 years in Aust with SSgA reaching $60 bn

... client relationships." SSgA has more than 300 institutional clients in Australia and New Zealand and offers more than 200 active, enhanced and passive investment strategies. Worldwide, SSgA has approximately $1.98 trillion in assets under management. ...

Cyclones and underinsurance strike in North Queensland

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2006
... of Australia's banana crop, worth around $350 million in annual production. Wesfarmers Federation Insurance used to be active in marketing crop insurance in the early 1990s in Queensland, though few farmers are likely to have maintained any cover through ...