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IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
The Investment & Financial Services Association and Deloitte have launched the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award - encouraging young financial services executives to submit ideas on how to solve some of Australia's toughest economic issues. Sarah Woodhouse ...

Funds want better EMs access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... across the board averaged about a zero return for the last 12 months, emerging markets managers averaged 14 per cent while the top emerging market managers are posting returns in excess of 40 per cent. International equities funds hedged to the Australian ...

Longevity swaps to top £10bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010

AFA awards top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), in association with Plan for Life, has announced the winners of this year's AFA/Plan for Life 2009 Life Company of the Year Awards. It was certainly the year for CommInsure, which took not just the Platinum ...

Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... yesterday, Torney said "one of the things that gets lost is the issue of net investment return" as funds vie to be at the top of the low fees table. "I don't mind paying 100 basis points if I'm going to get a 200 basis point return, as opposed to paying ...

Gen Y super members paying triple tax

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... give their TFN risk paying 46.5 per cent tax on their employer contributions instead of 15 per cent. REST also found that on top of this, more than a third of their members are not taking advantage of other ways to save money on retirement such as consolidating ...

HOSTPLUS $1bn mandate up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... Sicilia, chief investment officer of the $7 billion fund, HOSTPLUS, said they are looking to spend the sum on existing mandate top-ups and hiring new managers - with no limitations on asset classes. "We put nearly a billion into equity markets last year ...

Happy days are back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
See what a long weekend can do to Wall Street's mood? Or is it because Wall Street operators have all gotten some on Valentine's Day that they're still basking in its afterglow? I just wish it were that easy. But no! Just when we thought it couldn't ...

Russell wins IOOF mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
IOOF Holdings has appointed Russell Investments as its investment consultant to help manage its $10 billion multi manager portfolios - a move that puts Russell back in the spotlight on Australia's asset consulting map. Steve Merlicek, chief investment ...

Women on top of SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
SMSFs are meeting two of the Government's top goals in super - getting more members to take an active role in their retirement savings and getting more women involved, argue industry experts. Product providers new to the industry should understand the ...