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MLC Insurance gets upgraded

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) have both received further upgrades to their product line up. As part of the product upgrade from MLC, the two insurance offers have received five new features including a 12 month Life Cover Buy Back option which ...

Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
Shock, surprise, horror. There was none of that. But it's been another boring day on the financial markets over the past 24 hours and I have to get your attention somehow. Sure Virgie, most equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town recorded ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian dollar has fallen almost half a of one US cent as global markets reacted to China's reduced growth target. BRUSSELS - A dozen banks, insurers and investment funds holding Greece's bonds will participate in a massive debt relief ...

AQR wins ipac mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
AQR Capital Management has won a mandate from ipac Asset Management for placement in the Global Risk Premium Trust. The mandate, for an undisclosed sum, takes the pool for the Australian domiciled registered trust to more than AUD500 million from a ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
It's a wrap! It took days of high drama to get there, but it got there eventually. That's the Greek second bailout package of course. Standard & Poor's didn't like it and lowered Greece's rating to "selective default". Moody's followed suit a few days ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
Towers Watson has downgraded intermediate global developed market government and inflation-linked bonds to 'highly unattractive,' saying risk premiums no longer compensate long-term investors for duration risk. On-going money printing by central banks ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... the broader All Ordinaries index was down 42.7 points, or 0.97 per cent, to 4,345.4 points. Australian Banks were all in the red on Thursday. Commonwealth Bank Australia dropped 41 cents to $49.02, the National Australia Bank was down 20 cents to $23.47 ...

Smart beta gains popularity with instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
Smart beta solutions are becoming increasingly popular with global pension funds, according to research from UK advice firm bfinance. Smart beta, which includes fair-value indexing and low-volatility strategies were perceived as a method of reducing ...

FTSE index launch for insto investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
Global index provider FTSE Group today launched four new indices within the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Index Series that allow institutional investors to factor climate change risks into investment strategies. Partnered with CDP and ENDS Carbon, the four ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
MLC has shifted its Australian share strategy manager allocations for its major portfolios to add passive allocations to its investment strategy, replacing Concord Capital with Vanguard Investments among other changes. The MLC Horizon Series of portfolios ...