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Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Epoch Investment Partners, a global strategic partner of Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM), has received an $800 million mandate from AMP Capital for its Global Equity Shareholder Yield strategy. AMP Capital is investing in the fund, popular for ...

Insurance puts a price on housework

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Stay at home parents can now receive up to $900 a week in insurance cover for their unpaid housework, should they get injured or fall ill under a new insurance product. Suncorp subsidiary, Million Dollar Woman, created Day-to-Day Living Expenses Cover ...

BOQ launches online trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has teamed up with CMC Markets to provide online share trading service for retail investors. BOQ Trading enables customers to trade shares, options, warrants and managed funds at $17.95 per trade- courtesy of CMC's range of ...

Industry still lagging on green IT

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
The Australian financial services sector remains some way behind the US and UK for green IT and technology practices, despite progress in the last 18 months. A Fujitsu survey compared the maturity of green IT practices within banking, finance and insurance ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The future of life insurance rests with advisers, good reforms and consumer education according to three key insurance figures speaking at the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference today. In the first session for the day in Sydney, Geoff ...

Guardian FP eyes risk advisers

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
Guardian Financial Planning hopes to grow its adviser network by 10 per cent this financial year and wants to attract more risk insurance specialist advisers. The financial planning firm is using referrals to attract interest while talking to potential ...

Funds must invest in ESG expertise

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Fund managers must invest in experienced staff to tackle ESG issues, which are rising in prominence in the retail as well as the institutional space, according to one manager. Boutique fund manager Solaris Investment Management, appointed Lisa Domagala ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Super funds have been urged to perform oil vulnerability assessment after blasts rocked Moamar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound this morning. As explosions and anti-aircraft fire rocked the Libyan capital, brent crude prices rose to US$114.86 per barrel. ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
Australia's Future Fund is now the 13th largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, moving up from 15th place according to new figures from alternative investment research firm Preqin. The report compares the world's sovereign wealth funds in US dollar ...

CMC markets appoints new head for Aus, NZ

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
Louis Cooper has replaced Barry Odes as head of CMC Markets Australia and New Zealand. Cooper has worked with the broking firm since 1999 when it was a foreign exchange trading business in London with just 35 staff. "I was there in 2000 when they launched ...