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Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Yellow Brick Road, the financial planning business developed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, has dumped its acquisition strategy for an organic growth branch model - with the aim to open 150 practices in three years. Bouris said the business' ...

AIA Aus hires Telecom CEO to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
AIA Australia appointed former Telecom New Zealand chief executive, Theresa Gattung, to its board. Gattung was chief executive and managing director at the telecommunications firms between 1999 and 2007. Before joining Telecom, Gattung was chief manager ...

ABCs of super still confusing: Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Do you know your TTR from your MER? Apparently not for many Australians who still struggle with basic superannuation terms, new research shows. A new survey by Suncorp showed that transition to retirement strategies and management expense ratio number ...

IFS adds three super funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Industry Funds Services (IFS) has added the Sisters of Mercy Staff Superannuation, AUST(Q) and CONNECT Super to its client list. David Haynes, general manager at IFS, said the three super funds had signed on this year. This comes after Industry Fund ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The New Zealand bond market has moved in lockstep with its neighbour across the Tasman as it always had historically. There are numerous debates on why this should or should not be so. But whatever the underlying reasons behind this strong positive ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
It will take the global hedge fund sector another four years to recover assets lost since 2007, but its year-on-year growth will be faster than that of the managed fund sector, new research shows. According to Cerulli Edge, global hedge fund assets ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...

X-rays on APLs for Matrix advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Matrix Financial Solutions advisers are now able to see the underlying assets, investment strategies and currency risk of products in their approved products list, as part of the dealer group's latest research tool upgrades. The new research tools identify ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
One of the US' biggest pension funds, the $223 billion CalPERS, has filed a lawsuit against three of the world's most powerful rating agencies to claw back some of its losses from the GFC, but local super funds look unlikely to follow suit. CalPERS ...

Mercer to consult $2bn Motor Commission

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
The $2 billion Motor Accident Commission in South Australia has selected Mercer for its investment consulting services. Andrew Harrex and Greg Barr, principals at Mercer, will work with the consultant's insurance expert, Peter Hughes, to review the ...