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Challenger to ramp up life and funds mgmt after mortgage sale

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Challenger Financial Services said it intends to focus its resources on its life and funds management businesses following the sale of its mortgage management division to NAB for $385 million. This morning NAB and Challenger confirmed newspaper reports ...

AXA ramps up million-dollar insurance strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
AXA Australia's multi-million dollar investment in its financial protection business appears to be paying off with new business rising 23 per cent to $58 million and the firm now ranked in the top four across product, new business and underwriting categories. ...

Managed accounts firm ramps up ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Dalton Nicol Reid, a specialist active portfolio manager of managed accounts, has signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) - proving that stricter governance can be applied through MAs. For example, DNR axed Cabcharge ...

TWUSUPER ramps up fund features

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
A mid-sized Australian superannuation fund has revamped its investment switching, investment options and crediting rates arrangements to provide members with more choice and efficiency. TWUSUPER, which had $1.85 billion in funds under management at ...

Capstone FP eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Capstone Financial Planning is using the dealer group's independent label to attract more financial planning practices to its ranks - with over 10 practices expected to join in the next 12 months. Grant O'Riley, managing director at Capstone Financial ...

Minimum balance dropped for BOC Super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
The $392 million corporate fund BOC Super has ramped up its efforts to retain members by halving the minimum balance required for continued membership with the fund. According to a statement by BOC Super, the trustee had decided to reduce the minimum ...

Berry Fin Services ready for next growth phase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
Berry Financial Services managing director and FPA chair, Julie Berry, said ComCorp's 40 per cent stake gives her company more firepower to grow its client base, particularly in the credit union sector. MMC Contrarian subsidiary, ComCorp Financial Advice ...

Fin services back associations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Financial services institutions and professionals continue to throw their support behind associations and industry bodies such as the FPA, ASFA and SPAA despite pressure to cut costs. The Financial Planning Association (FPA), Association of Superannuation ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
The Church Pension fund, a US-based pension fund with $9 billion in assets, opens an office in Hong Kong as it bulks up its portfolio in Asian real estate and private equity assets. According to oversees news reports, the fund has hired Mason - who ...