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MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... businesses had public liability and nearly 40% had professional indemnity insurance, fewer than 10% had personal insurance. Research published by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and MetLife last March showed 35% of Australian workers had no disability ...

ClearView names CEO and exec team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... appointments. Tanya Seale will become the head of advice and will be responsible for technical services, paraplanning, CRM, research liaison and compliance. Mike Pope will take on the role of head of business development and have responsibility for practice ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Future Fund Management Agency and New Zealand Super Fund, have no on-going consultant relationship and instead do the research themselves. Despite this, neither consultants nor their largest super fund clients see any signs that the role of investment ...

Infra posts 18 pct returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... advantage is a whopping 7% pa and 9% pa respectively. Despite the impressive return metrics from the infrastructure sector, research from Rainmaker reveals the asset class continues to attract only low levels of interest from across the broad superannuation ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... increasing revenue, enhancing brand development, attracting new costumer, researching, networking and recruiting. Another research commissioned by Zurich Financial Services Australia show more than one third of financial advisers in the country use social ...

Market Vectors launches global quality focused ETF

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... information technology and healthcare. This includes companies such as Google, Roche, Apple and Johnson and Johnson." MSCI's research suggests that quality growth companies that have high ROE, stable earnings and low financial leverage are uncorrelated ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... which includes 50 members globally and seven in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Vanguard, Wang worked on macro research and strategic development at a sovereign wealth fund based in Asia. Before that she worked an economist and head of Greater ...

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... management as well as number of portfolio managers and analysts. The study was conducted by the global asset management research group eVestment. The Australian study that analysed the education background of 823 graduates supplements similar studies ...

Triple3 volatility fund added to Macquarie Wrap platform

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... The addition of the Triple 3 Volatility Fund to Macquarie Wrap follows the fund receiving a "Recommended" rating from research house Lonsec in August.

Fidelity appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... US and European equity funds, an equity strategist for RBS and most recently as managing director and head of equity research and strategy for CIMD. In the new role, De Voy will partner with Fidelity's sales channels to support the growth of the company's ...