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Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The life insurer who won the year's largest insurance mandate from a super fund, Tower Australia, has tapped the UK market's latest trends to boost its flagship Accelerate platform. Tower is unveilling its new Accelerated Protection platform - an improved ...

Global instos push for climate change action

PRESS STATEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Investment institutions including AMP, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Cbus and 178 others representing $14 trillion have signed a statement urging world leaders to agree on climate change. The statement, issued last month, outlines the ...

Gulf wealth to engulf stockmarkets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The Gulf region stands to destabilise global asset prices depending on how it redeploys its investment capital, after new data found the value of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) oil and gas reserves could be as much as $40 trillion - worth more than ...

ING outsources research to two firms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
ING Australia is outsourcing its financial product and fund research to two external providers in January as Financial Facts shuts its operations by the end of the year. According to a press statement from ING Australia, the firm recently conducted ...

Maritime Super lowers IP premiums

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Maritime Super has negotiated lower premiums on the income protection insurance for the 4,800 Stevedoring members. Peter Robertson, chief executive at Maritime Super, said the fund's claims had been good in the past year, which means the management ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Dow 10,000! So now...tell me...how do you put a negative spin on that? Not when Annie's tomorrow becomes today. "The sun'll come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!" Tomorrow's taken a year to come, but it has come. The ...

Prevention better than the cure: Asteron

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Life insurer Asteron spearheads a new preventative healthcare program that aims to slash the cost of insurance to the average Australian and finally put a stop to insurance being seen as a 'grudge expense'. Yesterday the group launched an online customer ...

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
TOWER Australia joins a growing list of corporate super fund providers that have switched from doing choice-of-fund admin internally to outsourcing the role to clearinghouse specialist, SuperChoice. Under the deal, SuperChoice will handle contributions ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Remember Meredith? Meredith Whitney? Yes, that one. The 'mujer' who moved Wall Street during last quarter's reporting season. She's back in the headlines this reporting season. And if you believe the headlines, she is once more pulling Wall Street her ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ipac has appointed $700 million mandates with GMO and Lazard as part of its Australian equities portfolio overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers ...