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Nooo Commission strips trailing fees off home loans

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
New home buyers could save as much as $50,000 in home loan costs under a new product by NSW-based Nooo Commission Group, which yesterday launched a "flat fee" home loan - stripping away upfront commissions and trailing fees typically embedded in traditional ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

Regnan to appoint new ESG research manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Regnan is looking for a new ESG research manager after Nathan Fabian takes a new role at the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC). "We are sad to see Nathan move on but our loss is the IGCC's gain. Climate change is a major ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Investment management technology provider DST International has been renamed DST Global Solutions Ltd, to reflect a business restructure and a move towards providing software services, not just products. Starting this year, the group will have three ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each ...

Perpetual starts legal proceedings to claim funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Perpetual Trustee Company has started legal proceedings in the UK on behalf of more than 1,000 retail investors who invested in $125 million worth of credit-linked Mahogany Capital notes that were sold by Grange Securities. Perpetual, the security trustee ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
From high-speed railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
In a world where major banks have passed the 'stress test' but not necessarily the smell test, investors should invest in portfolios that make small bets to gain big over the long term, said a fund manager who survived the '87 and '08 crash. Defying ...

What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
New restrictions to existing superannuation and tax concessions could help the Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts ...

Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
Trading technology specialist Instinet is expanding its presence in Australia and is adopting its global products and algorithms to suit the needs of local fund managers and super funds. Established nearly 40 years ago in the US, Instinet provides electronic ...