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CBA chair John Schubert retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia chairman, John Schubert, will retire in February 2010 and will be succeeded by current group non-executive director, David Turner. Schubert has been a member of the group's board since 1991, serving as deputy chairman ...

Zurich names new global head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Zurich Financial Services has appointed the firm's chief investment officer Martin Senn as chief executive at the start of next year as the existing chief executive retires. Aside from his role as chief investment officer, Senn also sits on the firm's ...

Officium Capital hires new 'best ideas' manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Officium Capital has selected Souls Funds Management to manage its concentrated best ideas fund after the previous manager, MMC Asset Management was sold last month. John Nunan, chief executive at Officium Capital, said the fund didn't want to leave ...

CFD demand rises with equities recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are staging a comeback and, in the last 12 months, there was a power shift among the largest players too, new research found. Research firm Investment Trends released its latest annual report on the sector, canvassing ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... expectations fro a 0.3 per cent rise and a 0.2 per cent fall in the previous month. US pending home sales jumped by 3.6 per cent in June - the fifth straight month of gains - to stand 9.2 per cent higher than a year ago. Yes Virginia, it would be like ...

UCSuper appoints IUS as insurer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The Uniting Church Superannuation Plan has appointed International Underwriting Services as its new insurer. UCSuper, which had $244 in funds under management at 31 December last year according to Rainmaker Information, signed a deal to bring on IUS ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on Monday, after US markets rose to a nine-month high overnight as manufacturing, housing and banking reports suggesting that the economy is gaining strength. At 0716 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

MLC wins life insurer of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
MLC has won the 2009 Life Insurance Company of the Year by the Australia & New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) for the fourth time in six years. The firm's product design, customer and adviser research and upgrade philosophy were ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Australian Christian Superannuation (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David ...

APRA recovers super assets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has successfully recovered the assets of failed South Australian based Harts Australia Staff Superannuation Fund. APRA took legal action on behalf of the fund's acting trustee to sell a property ...