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Cbus hires government strategist

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
The $13 billion Cbus has appointed former Federal and State Government strategist Chris Altis as executive manager policy and government. Altis joins Cbus from the office of Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon where he was a senior strategic adviser. ...

AMP selects AFG for mortgage aggregation

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
AMP Financial Planning has appointed Australian Finance Group to provide mortgage aggregation services - a move that diversifies its previous internal mortgage aggregation structure. AFG will provide mortgage aggregation services to AMP FP's financial ...

Cheap linkers up for grabs: Credit Agricole

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Inflation-linked bonds might still trail nominal bonds by 4 per cent in performance - but the gap is closing. Isabelle Vic-Philippe, head of duration & inflation management team at Credit Agricole Asset Management, told a media briefing yesterday that ...

Solaris wins CFS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management has been awarded a mandate by Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The mandate takes Solaris's funds under management to $3.4 billion since inception in January 2008. Denis Donohue, managing ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
From military overextension to excess debt, one expert argues that the seven signs that mark the end of an empire are evident in the current US regime - and explores why the baton of power has well and truly shifted to the BRIC economies. David Thomas ...

No transparency, no mandates: ARIA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Hedge fund managers will need to drastically improve their transparency and communication strategies - or face losing mandates from institutional managers, including the $17 billion ARIA. Lochiel Crafter, chief executive of ARIA, said one of the major ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Minister of superannuation Chris Bowen said self-managed super funds will not be exempt from strong government scrutiny - as the government cracks down on the sector's accountability, efficiency and governance issues. Speaking at the ASFA conference ...

Super funds need to reset agenda: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Super funds must take control of their priorities and purpose - and address the current "funds management mentality" that prevails in the industry, said Jeremy Cooper, chair of the Superannuation Systems Review. Cooper posed the question of whether ...

Adviser recruitment plagues super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
One of the major hurdles facing super funds in the post intra-fund advice relief era is attracting and maintaining qualified advisers, said an industry expert. David Anderson, business leader of Mercer's outsourcing business for Asia Pacific, told an ...

Retirement worries worse than job loss

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Put aside mortgage worries and losing one's job - Australians are more concerned about having enough money to retire on than keeping the family home and their work, new research by ASFA shows. Recent findings from Auspoll commissioned by the Association ...