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DeAM sets sights firmly on alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... business with $3.2 billion FUM, a fixed income and money market segregated mandate business with $2.8 billion FUM and an insurance sub-advised mandate business with $4.5 billion FUM. Andy Fay, chief executive officer of DeAM Australia and chief investment ...

New chairman for SPAA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... financial services experience to the role. He has spent time working with the Australian Taxation Office as well as the Insurance and Securities Commission for NSW and Queensland. Andrea Slattery, SPAA chief executive officer, said Colley would be an ...

Insurance on the go

ANZ and ING Australia have launched a new life insurance product that takes as little as 15 minutes for approval time, around the same time it takes to do a morning coffee run. Called OneCare Express, the life insurance product is developed from ING's ...

Russell adds two to insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... services, and will report to Annette Vlismas, director of client services. The new role will focus on superannuation, insurance and other Russell institutional clients. Hocking has spent time working in a number of strategic distribution roles in Russell ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

... Deloitte added that there are other alternative funds encroaching on traditional asset management territory. For example, insurance companies are fast repositioning their products as 'retirement services' to capture the assets being managed by DC plans ...

Cbus wins Investment Stewardship Award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... develop new products and to refine existing ones. "Recently we have introduced a new investment option, improved our insurance for members and expanded our financial advisory program. We are also gearing up for new products following the introduction ...

QIC finds value in IP

... yet," said Day. For example, the fund will start with IP but will explore other incubator asset classes such as general insurance, rural property and water rights. "This strategy will help our clients to be early adopters of new and emerging asset classes," ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... the current system where - while retirement savings are pre-funded - most companies pay their staff's retiree health insurance premiums as an annual lump sum, or on a "pay as you go basis". The risk is that this 'unfunded liability' is unpredictable ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... allocations to alternative assets and absolute-return products. In addition, a growing number of defined benefit and insurance funds are turning to the bond and derivatives markets to implement Liability Driven Investment (LDI) strategies." The investment ...

AGEST to hold AGM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... join online, last year being appointed the default super fund for the Northern Territory Government, upgrading their insurance, going public offer and being awarded top ratings from super fund researchers, said Seton. This year could also be a big year ...