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Kenya budgets right for investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
There are more winners than losers in the first Budget announced since the formation of Kenya's first coalition government, with local and foreign investors first in line to benefit. The group said in a report that household consumers will benefit from ...

Protect super savings: PwC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
The Australian Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) and the financial services industry must work together to find better ways to protect superannuation savings, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Investment Management CEO survey 2008. The ...

Vivid signs on Financial Simplicity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Vivid Financial has implemented Financial Simplicity's Enterprise Edition product to improve the trade efficiencies of their managed accounts portfolios. According to Jon Reilly, trading and compliance manager of Vivid Financial, the new software will ...

PSS deploys Acurity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
The NSW Police Superannuation Scheme (PSS) has officially engaged Acurity, a new administration system implemented by Financial Synergy and Pillar Adminsitration. According to Financial Synergy, PSS is one of Australia's oldest defined benefit and pension ...

PASF hires Outlook for advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Professional Associations Superannuation Fund (PASF) partnered with financial planning firm, Outlook Financial Solutions to provide its services to the super fund's 450,000 members. Tony McDonald, Outlook Financial Solutions managing director, said ...

Plan Protect buys boutique firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
AXA financial planning representative, Plan Protect purchased Sydney CBD based financial planning practice, Bearsden Holdings, boosting its funds under advice to more than $200 million. Bearsden Holdings comprises of two financial planners including ...

LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The superannuation industry doesn't often talk about its history but 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, has suggested Australia look to Sweden's nationalised pension system for a model of how to operate a low-cost superannuation system. But is this the right comparison? The centrally ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Credit rating agencies are bowing to the pressure of investors, issuers, and underwriters to change their ratings, a new survey shows. A recent member opinion poll conducted by the CFA Institute found that 11 per cent of those surveyed witnessed a CRA ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly is steering one of Australia's largest banking and wealth management groups to a more sustainable future when she signed the United National Global Compact (UNGC) CEO Water Mandate. The mandate is an international ...