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Tower pursues more insurance mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Tower will aggressively tender for more mandates next year as the firm forecasts further super fund consolidation and insurance reviews to come, said Geoff Black, chief executive of group life and investments. Tower's $600 million deal with AustralianSuper ...

PJC points finger at Storm model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... period before their customers went into negative equity," the report said. "The committee is of a clear view that Storm' aggressive leveraged strategy, in combination with the failure of multiple parties to appropriately monitor and manage margin calls ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... having a significant impact on other economies in the region and on commodity markets." We have yet to find out how aggressive and how far the RBA would turn up the heat on interest rates. Right now the 'frog' is still enjoying the warmth of its heated ...

ANZ says no to ING IM acquisition, for now

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... part-float its insurance and investment operations worldwide. Meanwhile ING in Europe announced this week that the aggressive worldwide asset sales strategy is enabling them to repay Netherland government loans much quicker than expected. In Australia ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... credit bubble. Even better, long-term US bond yields remained at around four per cent despite the US Federal Reserve's aggressive lifting the fed funds rate from a low of 1.0 per cent in 2004 to 5.25 per cent by mid-2006. Remember former US Federal Reserve ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... "We'll probably see lacklustre trading for the rest of the day," Mr Weston said. Industrial stocks were being quite aggressive on the market and energy stocks were doing well. Leighton Holdings gained $1.30, or 3.7 per cent, to $36.41, and Asciano shares ...

MasterSuper opens doors to all

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... scale and public offer status. Personal members will be able to access nine investment options from conservative to aggressive investment strategies. Members can also access financial advice and free educational seminars, among other initiatives of the ...

Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... a consultant in debt markets. "I'm more of a organic business developer so we're not doing the acquisition thing as aggressive as we were in the past. I bought Bryan out and he's doing his own thing," said Bouris. Replacing Davies as chief executive ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... Office word and Excel spreadsheets online. But Google's cloud computing dominance could be cut short by Microsoft's more aggressive foray into the web-apps sector - starting with the launch of its online Office during the first half year of 2010 to coincide ...

Legal funds merge into Legalsuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Legalsuper has merged with two similar industry funds - the $140 million Victorian Bar Superannuation fund and the smaller Blake Dawson Partner's Superannuation Fund. The mergers bring legalsuper's total funds under management to over $1.1 billion ...