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Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The sale of Aviva Australia to NAB raises questions on the future revenue flows of Aviva Investors Australia, the local fund management business excluded from the deal. Aviva Investors Australia, formerly Portfolio Partners, is one of the largest and ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Have we? Haven't we? Left bottom that is. Or is the taxpayer's impatience to get their money back and authorities' over zealousness to erect new 'thou shall not' signs to police financial institutions taking us back to that dark place we left back in ...

CBA on Storm damage control

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has suspended repayments for Storm Financial loan holders to the end of August and said it will pay for the cost of legal and financial advice for its affected customers. Ralph Norris, chief executive at Commonwealth ...

The liquidity trade-off

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Commodities, currencies, infrastructure and private equity will feature prominently in the next generation of super fund investment options and with that comes problems with balancing member choice with the right liquidity policy. Bruce Garratt, intermediary ...

Fin advice satisfaction down: Lifeplan

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
The latest Lifeplan ICFS Financial Advice Satisfaction Index fell 4.3 per cent in the last six months, with financial planning clients unevenly split between those who are likely to stick with their planner and those that are more vulnerable to cutting ...

AMP awards $43m mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors has awarded a $43.5 million mandate to Man Investment's part-owned manager, Nephila Capital. Nephila Capital is an alternative investment manager specialising in catastrophe reinsurance. The firm invests across the range of insurance-linked ...

NZ govt to suspend NZ Super contribs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
The New Zealand government's plans to stop contributions to NZ Super for at least a decade could place the super fund under greater financial pressure in the future, according to one global asset consultant. Martin Lewington, New Zealand business leader ...

TOWER profit down, life business up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
TOWER Australia posted a 12 per cent fall in net profit after tax to just over $27 million in the firm's first half results, while new individual life sales continue to increase. Despite the fall in net profit after tax, TOWER Australia's underlying ...

AIG Hong Kong begins rebrand strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
American International Assurance Company (AIA Group) in Hong Kong is beginning its long awaited rebrand strategy, a move expected to involve subsidiaries across the region. The objective of the rebrand is to demonstrate separation from AIG in the US ...