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A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Global managed futures giant Superfund sets up an investment centre in Sydney, open to the public, to help investors understand how managed futures work. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund has grown to manage more than US$1.4 billion in assets ...

Wide Bay tags Aviva insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Regional banking group Wide Bay Australia has teamed up with Aviva to offer life insurance to its clients. The new insurance, called 'Widecover LiFE' will be distributed throughout Wide Bay's 45 branches across regional Queensland from Cairns to the ...

Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Malaysia may have overtaken Saudi Arabia to boast the highest number of shariah funds in the world - but the Asian Islamic country has a long way to go in building up assets for each of its 145 funds, according to a new report. November figures from ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Australian markets have received mixed leads. While Wall Street was slightly higher in late-afternoon trade, precious metals were higher, copper was up, too, but crude oil ended up lower. At 0709 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

Invest in shares or migrate: Ruthven

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Planners should start investing in Australian equities while the ASX200 is at a "ridiculous" 3,400 level or miss out on a rare opportunity to add value to their client portfolios, said Phil Ruthven, IBISWorld executive chair. Ruthven said the local ...

Energy fund bucks market slump

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Bakers Alternate Energy Fund finished 2008 with a 0.2 per cent positive performance - yards ahead of the S&P/ASX300 Index's 42 per cent loss over the last calendar year. The Australian share market suffered massive losses of up to 41.73 per cent ...

Boutiques hire ex-Macq BDMs

MEDIA RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Boutique firms Instreet and Integrity Investment Management have appointed ex-Macquarie Bank business development managers to similar roles in their respective businesses. Instreet hired Gabriel Carey and Susanne Bransgrove as senior business development ...

Qld firm to restore "faith" in planning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Queensland based financial planning firm, Aylesbury Financial Group is providing free financial advice to those who can't afford it to restore the community's faith in financial planning services. Trudy Heins, Aylesbury Financial Group senior financial ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The $529 million Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund is defying the super industry's flight to cash when it recently introduced a new "high growth" investment option to members. Up until the start of this year, MIESF did not offer investment ...