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Super FUM hits $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... superannuation being dominated by the employer channel reinforces the role MySuper is expected to play in the market from 2013, notes Rainmaker.

Write-down clouds Bendigo's 43% profit tumble

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... December 2011, after declines in its margin lending portfolio and in the value of its wealth division. The sale of subordinate notes, and a recent offloading of a 7.8% stake in wealth manager IOOF contributed an additional 42 basis points of core tier-one ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Shenhua Coal in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with an attendant need to own water to service mining operations, Lourey notes. It is an issue of static supply and rapidly growing demand to meet agricultural, industrial, urban and environmental needs. ...

APA ups HDF offer

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Exchange (ASX). If the offer is accepted, APA said that it would raise $350 million to help fund the takeover by issuing listed notes. APA chief financial officer Peter Fredricson said the fund raising venture would broaden the company's funding options ...

Brierley bids for wound-down scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... September 2010, Brierley made an offer for 4.8 cents per share for the remainder of the fund. The fund's residual assets are notes backed by loans to agricultural managed funds which held a carrying value of approximately $3.6 million in cash and equivalents ...

ClearView rejects PE bid

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... A$0.50 in cash for each ClearView share is inadequate and the offer materially undervalues ClearView. The Board further notes that the bid is subject to a number of conditions, including a minimum acceptance of more than 50%," said the statement. The ...

Climate change already an insurance risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... lead to losses on a scale never before experienced, insurers are not waiting for researchers to produce all the answers," notes a report the US Insurance Information Institute that was published in February this year. A report from insurer Munich Re ...

Handle churn through dealer groups, don't target advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... and life companies to manage the small portion of advisers who engage in 'churn' via such means as reduced commissions, notes their submission. Asteron Life's submission was based on a survey of 70 independent financial advisers, who expressed concerns ...

UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... pays for the platform service hinders transparency and has the potential to negatively affect competition in the market," notes the report. Even more confronting for an industry where payments to aligned distributors have in the past been the core of ...

SWFs to reach $30tr in 20 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... and is on its way to reaching $US30 trillion over the next 20 years provided there are no significant capital draw downs, notes Rainmaker in its upcoming Roundup report. Reflecting the dominance of resource revenue in SWF assets, the Middle East makes ...