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Fidelity appoints new BDM

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
Fidelity Investments Australia has appointed a new associate director of business development. Tom Keenan, a former business development manager with Colonial First State, will join the current sales team of seven and will focus on developing intermediary ...

Aviva creates new unit to beef up distribution

Aviva has appointed three national distribution development managers (DDMs) in a newly- reated division. The new appointees are Adam McKenzie, Maria Mazur and John Ashton who will work within the distribution unit alongside the business development ...

Fees are going up, but it wasn't meant to be

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
Market pressure due to super choice was meant to drive down fees. But fees are going up. Why? The answer is primarily due to the impact of the ASIC fee template. Yes, it's the government's fault. Not because compliance costs have added to super fund ...

NAB completes $575m insurance sale to AXA

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has finally received the regulatory nod to complete the $575 million sale of MLC Hong Kong and MLC Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The bank flagged its intentions to divest its life insurance operations ...

ACT govt goes to super tender

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
... ACT Superannuation Provision account, which is effectively the ACT Future Fund, that several years ago was funded by the sale of ACTEW and assorted other government assets to underpin, on an accrual basis, long-term ACT government unfunded superannuation ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
Following a week of controversy surrounding the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) announcement of a 25 basis point hike in the country's official cash rate, this week will give financial markets more variables to digest as the Federal Treasury delivers ...

Schroder's head of retail sales jumps ship

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
Schroder Investment Management Australia (Schroder's) head of retail sales has left the group to take up a similar position with investment management group and global international equities specialists, T.Rowe Price Global Investment Services. Murray ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
The Australian share market should open stronger and recover a fair chunk of the sharp losses from yesterday as base metal prices rebounded strongly overnight. Further improvements in the gold price should also boost investor sentiment, although this ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
In an unexpected move, the Peoples Bank of China increased its one year lending rate to 5.85 per cent - the first increase since October 2004 - from 5.58 per cent. Undoubtedly the move was taken in order to cool China's overheating economy. Chinese ...

Daily economic update

... biggest increase in 10 years - to 1.21 million units annualised from 1.07 million units. The supply of homes available for sale fell to 5.5 months from 6.3 months. The median price fell to US$224,200 and is down 2.2 per cent from a year ago -- the first ...