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FSC appoints new chair

FSC ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Financial Services Council (FSC) appoints Macquarie Bank executive, Peter Maher, as chairman after the former chair retires. Maher, Macquarie bank's head of banking and financial services group, will take on the role of chairman at the FSC as part of ...

Westscheme sells $300m Brisbane property

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The $3.2 billion Westscheme has sold its stake in Brisbane Square for $300 million to Telstra Super and the Charter Hall Core Plus Office Fund. According to a media statement yesterday, Westscheme announced the $300 million enterprise value meant the ...

Suncorp chair to retire

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
John Story, Suncorp chairman, intends to retire next year after the next board election. Story, in his latest chairman address, has expressed plans to stand in the next election to act as a guide to the new board before stepping down as chair in a year's ...

Investor confidence shaken, and stirred

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Despite better economic numbers from the US and at home, Australians are less confident about their finances today than they were three months ago, a study found. The Suncorp Life Confidence Index fell 1.5 points fell from 60.9 in April 2010 to 59.4 ...

PIMCO Aus adds investment specialist

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
PIMCO Australia has appointed a new investment specialist to service the retail market. Michael Dale has joined the asset manager from Suncorp Metway where he served as a treasury dealer in the insurance house's fixed interest/money market sales team. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
The Australian market has received strong leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, at 0743 AEST, the December share price index contract was 42 points higher at 4,693. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Aussies fear super balances

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
More Australians don't know how much they have in their super today than a year ago, research shows. The second annual Suncorp Life Attitudes to Superannuation in Australia Survey assessed consumers' concerns about having enough money to retire on and ...

Fixed income prone to emotion-led choices

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
According to the fourth research paper on "Greed and Fear" released by Tyndall Investments, investor psychology is very much a force in today's fixed income market - not just in equities. Tyndall noted that investors need to adopt long-term strategies ...

Sunsuper boosts relationships with retail hires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Sunsuper has recruited three new customer relationship managers from Commonwealth Financial Planning, Suncorp and Hostplus to its Queensland offices. Fiona Cairns, who has more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry, including a ...

Rainmaker unveils winners of the 2010 Marketing Excellence Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
AustralianSuper, Principal Global Investors and AMP were among the winners of last night's 16th Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards held at the Shangri-La in Sydney. More than 160 attendees, many of whom are sales and marketing specialists in financial ...