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APRA stresses super client burden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
John Trowbridge, executive member at Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), has highlighted the pressure group insurers are under to attain and keep contracts with large super funds. Speaking at the Institute of Actuaries of Australia yesterday ...

Aussies follow Brits pushing advice aside

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... reputation, said Browning. Meanwhile, Browning said perception is a big part of the problem especially in the wake of some corporate failures. "There are a great many myths out there that need to be exposed, including that financial planning is only ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... compared to their overseas counterparts. The comprehensive research broke down their analysis based on whether the fund is corporate, retail or industry. Some analyses were also split between fees charged by defined benefit (DB) versus defined contribution ...

Aon hires national manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Aon Corporate Risk Services has announced the appointment of John Donnelly as national manager. Formerly the national head of corporate business at JLT, Donnelly has joined Aon's Sydney office. Paul Venning, Aon Corporate Risk Services' national general ...

Westpac's Chronican joins ANZ

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... 27 years at Westpac. Until July 2009, he was group executive, Westpac Institutional Bank responsible for the global corporate and institutional banking business. Previously Chronican was chief financial officer from 2001 to 2005. Formerly, he held a ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... Europe's main stock markets rallied strongly, boosted by an election win for a business-friendly coalition in Germany and corporate takeovers in the US. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed 83.5 points, or 1.64 per cent higher, at 5165.7. ...

Future Fund guardian joins Coffey International

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... International, Mulcahy's appointment was foreshadowed at the firm's annual general meeting last year to boost Coffey's corporate governance profile. As part of this plan the company also announced the resignation of executive director Glen Simpson who ...

CFA appoints Gunasingham as president

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... local investment professionals engaged in a wide variety of roles, including portfolio management, security analysis, corporate finance and investment advice. They are volunteer positions, with the holders employed as full-time investment professionals ...

Platforms bounce back 7.9 pc

... performance gap between retail funds and not-for-profit funds first compressed, and has now reversed, with the average corporate master trust outperforming the average not-for-profit fund by 0.4 percentage points in the year to end July. Twelve months ...

EQT and PIMCO get van Eyk tick

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... independent sector. The decision to do so was driven by the attractive opportunities available across investment grade corporate bonds, as well as the growing client interest in credit investments during late 2008 and early 2009. "Thorough bottom-up ...