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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,393 points, with 6,684 contracts traded. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said the local market was trading in quiet conditions at the open. Ms Chan said investors were ...

TAL appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... delighted to have Brad join the team," said Griffin. "He has a deep understanding not only of the life insurance and broader wealth industries, but also of TAL from his time as a senior consultant to us."

New head of wealth advice at Perpetual

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
Mark Smith has taken up the role of group executive of Perpetual Private, the wealth advice business of Perpetual Limited. Perpetual Private includes the Private Client, Fiduciary, Fordham and Philanthropy offerings. Smith was appointed earlier in the ...

Two boutiques merge to target SMEs

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... planning, the new practice plans to specialise in retirement, risk insurance, business succession, superannuation, and wealth accumulation. The merger was born when Neil White and Roger Ellingworth - who had known each other through the industry for ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... what have been attractive term-deposit rates and protracted market volatility - is a lingering nemesis confronting the wealth creation industry. While falling interest rates and a slightly improved global economic outlook might be expected to encourage ...

Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... the most attractive markets for global fund managers. Compulsory superannuation has created a vast $1.2 trillion pot of wealth for fund managers to mine, while the global financial crisis has emphasised the need for investors to allocate to an increasingly ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... decade, Hook warned investment managers that they are not well prepared to serve the needs of the retirees segment. While wealth accumulation products generally cater well for the retirement sector, Hook also identified significant gaps across all other ...

Low-volatility post-retirement solutions needed: Bell

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... look more closely at the benefits associated with reverse mortgages, and myriad whole-of-life solutions to deliver greater wealth at retirement, and also combat longevity risk. While he championed the importance of life-time annuities as a great strategy ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
The Australian market is more than three-quarters of a per cent lower after Wall Street plunged overnight. At 1023 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 36.7 points, or 0.84 per cent, at 4,351.7, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... found that people were basically clueless," said Bateman. Unlike the US, where much of the retirement focus has moved from wealth to thinking about income and aged care, she said that Australians' remained overly preoccupied with the accumulation of ...