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Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... broad-based nature of the bullishness in domestic shares could be gleaned from the sharp 19 per cent appreciation in the market's Top 100 stocks and an even sharper 38.6 per cent leap in the local bourse's smaller capitalisation stocks. This makes it ...

Investors want more Centrelink

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Investment growth may be important - but top of mind for many investors now is the fear that their age pension may be slashed by Centrelink, said Suncorp Financial Planning. David Carter, executive general manager of advice solutions at Suncorp, said ...

AXA ramps up million-dollar insurance strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... protection business appears to be paying off with new business rising 23 per cent to $58 million and the firm now ranked in the top four across product, new business and underwriting categories. Roughly 18 months ago, Michael Rogers, general manager ...

SMA ratings bring clarity for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... decisions when selecting SMAs for clients. S&P has given four stars to the Ausbil Australia Concentrated Equity and Blue Chip Top 20 (Aviva Investors) model portfolios. Three stars were awarded to the Aviva Investors Core Opportunities, Aviva Investors ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... monitors returns each month for more than 200 super and retirement funds and several thousand investment options, freely posting top fifty league tables for each major asset sector over one, three, five, seven and ten years on their website www.selec ...

More reform through reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... releasing an options paper dealing with product rationalisation in the coming weeks. Dealing with legacy products will also be top of the agenda, he said. "This issue needs to be resolved," he said. "The options paper will form the basis of a round of ...

VicSuper wins ACCA sustainability award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
VicSuper has been announced the winner of ACCA's annual Sustainability Reporting Awards. VicSuper received the top nod in three categories; Best Sustainability Report, Best SME Report and Best Report in the Financial Service sector awards at the recent ...

Templeton and TAAM top EM review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... totalling $30 billion in the second quarter of this year. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst at Lonsec, said a focus on top-down factors allowed fund managers to contain losses in the past 18 months. "A common reflection from managers when pondering ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... start getting back into the market so we increased our tilt in both international and Australian equities," said Livanas. This top-up concludes phase one of the super fund's three-phase strategy, said Livanas. This follows AMIST has rolled out a fee-for-service ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone and all! Except for the grinch bears that is. Yes, Virginia. Christmas came in July. Hope and cheer abounded in equity markets around the globe and in other risk assets. How could they not? Slow - painfully ...