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LMW Invest teams up with Denison

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
LMW Invest and The Denison Group have formed a joint venture aimed at delivering traditional syndicated property investments to retail investors. An eight level office tower in North Sydney, with forecast fund yield of 9 per cent, is the first building ...

Simulate my super: ING

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
ING Australia has launched its Super Simulator aimed at corporate super members. The Super Simulator is an interactive retirement calculator which also combines education to help superannuation members understand their super. Mark Pankhurst, head of ...

Insurance shopping goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
More people are hopping online to get insurance, a new survey shows. A new Allianz survey of 325 of its clients noted that over 80 per cent of its clients did not want to see a financial planner to take out life insurance. The main reasons for choosing ...

AMP posts strong super and risk flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
AMP recorded around $2 billion in net cashflows to the firm's superannuation and pension business last year and announced a focus on simpler, transparent products in the long term. AMP Financial Services' net cashflows were up $81 million in the first ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each ...

Australian Ethical sponsors art prize

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Are you the next Rembrandt or Andy Warhol? Australian Ethical is sponsoring the Australian Ethical Art Prize - a competition open to all artists. According to the Australian Ethical website, the fund manager is sponsoring an art competition which encourages ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Generally positive reactions by wealth managers to the second Rudd-Swan federal budget indicate the industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Super funds, insurance firms and credit unions have just three weeks to deliver a written submission to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on effectively managing information technology (IT) risk. The regulatory body said IT risk ...

Local Govt Super overhauls intl eq, Aus equities next

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Local Government Super (LGS) has changed the manager line up of its $990 million international equities portfolio to suit a "core and satellite" approach, and it plans to do the same with its $1 billion Australian equities portfolio next. Peter Lambert ...

S&P retains 'five stars' rating on Capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Standard & Poor's has kept the 'five stars' rating on the Capital International Global Equities fund. The firm previously rated the fund 'five stars' but the fund needed to be re-rated after a change in distribution partners. The fund was previously ...