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Growth bond plays tax trump card

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
AMP has launched the AMP Growth Bond, a "tax paid" investment that allows investors to accumulate wealth with no lock in periods. The AMP Growth Bond is an investment or insurance bond style of where tax is paid on investment earnings within the product ...

Pax fined for SRI breach

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
US-based fund manager Pax World Management was forced to stump up US$500,000 in regulatory fines for violating its own socially responsible investments (SRI) policies. According to the Securities Exchange Commission, the firm bought 10 securities between ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
The Australian share market was close to one per cent higher at noon after shaky financial stocks changed direction to add to strong gains in the resources sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 had gained 42.9 points, or 0.88 per cent to 4,918.1 ...

Plan B bears market pain

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Boutique wealth manager Plan B's full year results were not as stellar as the numbers in the half year although the company still managed to meet its earnings target and dish out higher-than-planned dividends for shareholders. Six months ago, Plan B ...

Guild selects Mercer for admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Guild Group appointed Mercer to provide administration and member services across GuildSuper, GuildPension and the Australian Child Care Superannuation Fund. Mercer started providing administration, call centre and online services to the group's members ...

SimCorp adds LexiFi modelling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
SimCorp teamed up with French software provider, LexiFi to integrate the firm's financial modelling technology onto SimCorp's investment management system, SimCorp Dimension. The integration of LexiFi's technology means SimCorp can deliver complete ...

Barclays UK takes life insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
UK based Barclays Bank penned a deal with Norwich Union to provide life insurance products for the retail market online, a strategy which contrasts the approach of many Australian insurance firms. The deal means Barclays will offer both level and decreasing ...

SAM seeks retail distributor for theme funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) is in talks with a number of major Australian institutions to distribute its European listed global equity sustainability themed funds to the Australian retail market. Simon Romijn, SAM clients and distribution director ...

Peak oil bigger problem than climate change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
Peak oil is a much more immediate problem than climate change, delegates at a Finsia seminar heard yesterday. But the potential ramifications of climate change just make the problem worse, said Ian Dunlop, a former petroleum engineer who is now the ...

Finance recruiters keen for more

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
Australia's financial services industry is hungry for new blood - spurring some of the biggest names in the industry to embark on a serious recruitment hunt via Kaplan Professional's Financial Services Careers Week. Kaplan officially unveilled its Careers ...