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Insurance bonds back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... superior to superannuation, private trusts, testamentary trusts and it is superior to holding investment through a private company." In the 1980s, insurance bonds were a huge investment vehicle, but in the 1990s they lost favour, said James Proctor ...

Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... and business investment improve and a softer currency (usually) boosts exports. The Australian share market rallies as company profits improve and investors switch out of low yielding cash, term deposits and debt and into equities. Lonsec believes this ...

BTFG cash earnings down, FUM increases

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... business now has the fourth largest market share at 13.4%, with annual net flows of $3.8 billion to December 2011." Parent company Westpac's strategy to provide more services to clients from across the Group has been seen as largely successful, extending ...

Hedge fund investors win in fees makeover

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... according to new research from Towers Watson. In the research, 'Hedge fund investing - opportunities and challenges', the company argues that this is wholly appropriate given investors place 100% of their capital at risk. "It said a more equitable split ...

Carter exits QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
Robert Carter, managing director of QIC's global real estate boutique is exiting the company after 22 years to be replaced by head of Australian operations at La Salle, Steven Leigh. Carter, who assumed leadership of the global real estate (GRE) division ...

BTIM results impacted by acquisition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... points is the result of the acquisition, said Gonzales, which is 100% equities, thereby attracting the higher margin. The company has announced an interim dividend of 5.5 cps fully franked, a payout of 80% of 1H12 cash net profit after tax, down 8% on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... dropped 9.4 per cent, seasonally adjusted, in March 2012, their lowest level in more than 10 years. Industrial services company Spotless has agreed to a full take-over by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a total cash consideration ...

Acadian appoints new CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... an asset consultant for Mercer Investment Consulting in London. Acadian Australia is a joint venture funds management company, equally owned by Colonial First State and Boston based Acadian Asset Management. Acadian has $750 million in funds under ma ...

Trustee reforms risk being neutered

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... in legal terms structured as products for which the sponsoring wealth management group appoints an associated trustee company. Indeed using this model a wealth group's trustee companies may be acting as the overseeing trustee board by more than a dozen ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
WA super provider GESB has awarded four global bond investment mandates to Wellington Management Company LLP, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Ltd and PIMCO Australia Pty Limited, worth a total of $2.3bn. The mandates will cover two global bond ...