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PIS awards top risk adviser

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Professional Investment Services (PIS) Gold Coast based insurance adviser, Jason Churchill, has won the dealer group's best risk specialist award for the third time. Churchill has been an authorised representative at PIS since 2002. He heads up the ...

AIG Life adds to group team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
AIG Life appointed Craig Extrem as national manager, client markets - group insurance. He joins AIG Life from TOWER Australia where he worked as head of sales - group risk since April 2006. Extrem also worked at Prefsure, Lumley Life and Colonial in ...

Bond funds top UK platform flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... bond fund sectors. This comes after the platform recorded record inflows into bond funds in the last quarter of 2008. The top five funds included M&G Corporate Bond A fund; Invesco Perpetual Corporate Bond fund; M&G Strategic Corporate Bond A fund; Invesco ...

Not your average Clark Kent

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
He doesn't fly or fight villains, but guides members through the superannuation maze - meet Media Super's latest mascot, Super Hero. The latest "member" of the $2.5 billion Media Super team has been designed to help members understand their investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... or 1.92 per cent, to 14,555.11. WELLINGTON - New Zealand stocks surged nearly one per cent the back of an 11-week high for top stock Telecom and a decline in the NZ dollar. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed up 22.1 points at 2686.44, after the previous ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... these markets in order to hopefully lock in good returns over the next three to five years," Hill said. REST is among the top ten performing industry funds in the country. For their default option they ranked 10th over 1-year and 7th over a 3-year period ...

Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... investment allocation in Australia. A fraction are thinking of allocating more, with the materials and financials sectors on top of their buy list.

Secondaries top PE list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Superannuation funds with cash to spare should consider picking investment gems from the private equity secondary market - which is clearly favouring the buyer in this current environment, said a global expert. Sally Collier, partner at Pantheon Ventures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... points, or three per cent, 4,674.32. PARIS - France's CAC 40 gained 94.23 points, or 3.13 per cent, to 3,102.85. TOKYO - Japan's top securities firm, Nomura, announced a record $US7.3 billion annual loss, sending the Nikkei-225 index down 139.02 points ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... be directed towards high income earners. Government going cold on the idea to boost age pensions, or to at least limit the top ups, reinforce the importance of superannuation as the preferred retirement savings vehicle despite the buffetting super has ...