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Instreet hires HFA exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Boutique fund manager Instreet has hired former HFA Asset Management executive Sam Harris as relationship manager for New South Wales. With more than eight years of experience in the financial services industry, he brings to the role knowledge of the ...

AustralianSuper revamps retirement investment path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
AustralianSuper is introducing a new age-based default for pension members and implementing a different path for those moving from accumulation to pension phase. The super fund conducted a review of the risk and benefits of its balanced option, which ...

Rise of mini-mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Many planners are looking for bespoke risk management solutions to help protect their client portfolios from market swings while, at the same time, remaining 'in the game'. George Lucas, founding managing director of boutique structured products specialist ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

Underinsurance to hit crisis point

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
One in five working Australian families will suffer the death of a parent or a serious health problem over the course of both parent's working lives, according to new research - but how that impacts their finances can depend on their insurance cover. ...

Prudential back in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
Financial services giant Prudential will be the new owner of AIA Group (AIA), the Australasian life insurance businesses of AIG Group, in a deal worth US$35.5 billion - a move that potentially brings the Prudential name back in Australia after 12 years ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...

Super funds to gain better risk management

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Super funds could soon gain far more detail on fund manager performance after the launch of a new middle office platform from IT outfit DST Global Solutions. Steve McGovern, global head of the middle office platform at DST Global Solutions, said the ...

IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
The Investment & Financial Services Association and Deloitte have launched the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award - encouraging young financial services executives to submit ideas on how to solve some of Australia's toughest economic issues. Sarah Woodhouse ...

Funds want better EMs access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Growing appetite for emerging market investment is pushing super funds to think differently about how to gain access to the sector, said Bruce Murphy, managing director BNY Mellon Asset Management in Australia. International equities now make up 23 ...