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ING battles longevity risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... career developing innovative products in insurance. In a previous role, he turned a loss making life insurer into the fastest growing company in its field and the fastest growing writer of annuities. Longevity is an issue close to his heart. Many of ...

Rwanda calls for $770m fund injection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... demand for tiles, glass, cement. The Rwanda Development Board is aiming to lure investors to pour funds into the one of the fastest growing construction industries in the country - product manufacturing. "Rwanda is currently the largest importer of construction ...

AIA public listing one step closer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. AIG Life Australia, according to Plan For Life, is the fastest growing insurer in Australia with premium revenue up more than 40 per cent, while according to the Rainmaker 2009 group ...

BT winds up Global Return fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... terminating the fund, selling its assets and paying proceeds received on a pro-rata basis to all investors is the "fairest and fastest way of providing liquidity from the fund...without disadvantaging any group of investors". The BT Global Return fund ...

HSBC appoints Davis as Indian CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... division employs more than 37,000 local residents, making up 11 per cent of the company's total workforce. "As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India plays a critical part in the group's strategic focus on emerging markets," said Sandy ...

SPAA membership rises 50 pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... driving the rise in membership," said Slattery. SPAA's role could become even more important as SMSFs continue to be the fastest growing sub-segment in superannuation. "Traditionally there is an increase in the number of SMSFs being set up in poor economic ...

SMSFs breach asset rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... findings were from a study of more than 500 SMSFs with an average balance of $530,000. The $350 billlion SMSF sector is the fastest growing sub-segment in super funds with around 2,500 new SMSFs established each month.

No mandate terminations: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... manager, [then] obviously there's trust built already because if it wasn't, [the mandate] shouldn't be there. That's the fastest way to re-enter the market," he said. Although Sicilia has not ruled out the possibility of appointing new mandates, he is ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... finance industry still had some way to go to draw record web clicks, only one finance company, ANZ, made it to the top 20 fastest rising Australian searches of 2008. Instead more Australians googled Miley Cyrus, Underbelly and Sarah Palin this year than ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... Management to be used as the basis for a long-only corporate governance investment fund. "ASEAN member countries are among the fastest emerging economies in Asia. The Dow Jones Islamic Market ASEAN Index now enables market participants to track Shari'ah-compliant ...