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Industry bodies unite to create Korea forum

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... associations signed an agreement to create the investment forum aimed at boosting cooperation in financial services and mutual development of both countries' capital markets, and their investment funds industries. The forum will work on promoting regulatory ...

New beginnings at Tower

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... Particularly so in the case of Dai-ichi, who has held a 29 per cent stake in Tower since 2008. Previously the oldest insurance mutual in Japan, the company was demutualised in March 2010 and since then upped the anted in its expansion throughout Asia. ...

Changes ahead for WA govt super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
A report commissioned by the WA Treasurer into the GESB demutualisation said the proposal was not in members interests and recommends major changes to WA public sector superannuation arrangements. In July 2009, the WA Treasurer appointed Rod Whithear ...

ASX lodges defence for SGX pairing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... Australia. The entity will act as a "conduit of activity" between the two centres. Cross-listing, cross-membership and mutual offset arrangements between the two exchanges will form the basis of this conduit. The report also found both firms will have ...

AMP won't be fifth banking pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... of AMP becoming a fifth banking pillar, forcing the government to continue with its plan to assist small banks and the mutual banking sector in credit unions and building societies step up to the plate. Dunn's comments show that while the wealth management ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... SAC Capital Advisors and Citadel Investments have since been raided. And overnight, the scandal took another twist with mutual fund providers receiving subpoenas from the Department of Justice. Janus Capital, which has an office in Melbourne, confirmed ...

Wingate appoints Laband and Liling

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... was also a non-executive director from 2008 following the acquisition of Intech by Skandia. He has also worked with City Mutual and National Benefits Consulting.

MLC and HIP partner in insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
MLC Group Insurance has partnered with Health Industry Plan (HIP) to develop group insurance enhancements for the fund's members, including a 20 per cent rise in death cover benefits. The new partnership will see HIP members receive an increase of death ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... this market." "By contrast, retail investor confidence both globally and in Australia remains fragile. In the US, equity mutual funds flows have been negative for 23 consecutive weeks and year to date redemptions total US$80 billion," he said. Cole said ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... were more susceptible to concerns of market uncertainty, leading to choices of familiar, local stocks and picked active mutual funds with high fees. The researchers looked at statistics from the UBS/Gallup Investor Optimism Survey between 1991 to 2002 ...