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AIA Group reports 34% profit growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
Life insurer AIA Group has reported strong profits on its interim results for the six months ending May 31, 2013. The group, which is listed in Hong Kong but operates in Australia as AIA Australia, has reported a net profit growth of 34% and a 29% of ...

Super fund mergers pose capacity problem

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Trafford-Walker said. Towers Watson Australia investment services director Graeme Miller agreed. He said that shaking a group of asset managers out of the industry could also result in better - and cheaper - opportunities for fund managers to add value. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street and European bourses as investors took a new look at upbeat US jobs data and looked forward to the kickoff America's earnings season. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the September ...

Pioneer Capital awarded New Zealand Super mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has awarded a NZ$40 million mandate to Auckland-based Pioneer Capital for a new expansion capital fund. Pioneer Capital's second fund (PCPII) will invest in privately-owned, small to medium-sized New Zealand businesses ...

UK RDR market impacts gathering pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... down, merged or been acquired. The stark results are based on an ongoing survey program by the actionconsulting group, a group that aims to monitor how the RDR is impacting the UK intermediated advice market. The consultant's latest survey meanwhile ...

Nikko AM appoints chief legal officer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
Nikko Asset Management has appointed Ross Long to its senior management team as chief legal officer. He will be responsible for the funds management business' global legal functions. Long has been involved in the law and finance industries for nearly ...

Fund manager dismisses super fund fee demands

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... last five years Platinum has beaten the market by an average of 5% per year net of fees, a remarkable achievement for a group with around $20 billion in assets under management. "How many fund managers out there can say that they actually perform over ...

NZ Super takes stand on nuclear weapons

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (New Zealand Super) has sold its holdings in a group of nuclear base operators because they have become involved with upgrading or modifying nuclear explosive devices. Publicly listed companies Babcock & Wilcox, Fluor ...

Shell Super to outsource to Plum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Shell Australia Superannuation Fund (Shell) is set outsource its superannuation to Plum Financial Services Ltd (Plum), once it gets trustee sign off. Shell made the announcement in a member update this week. "The decision as to whether or not a transfer ...

netwealth's advice group moves advice ops

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Wealth management group netwealth's advice group has moved its operations on the back of an announcement earlier this month that the wider netwealth group's funds under management had hit the $4 billion mark. netwealth Advice Group (NAG)'s advice operations ...