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Military Super revamps strategic asset allocation

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Military Super has overhauled the strategic asset allocation throughout four of its five investment options following the fund's annual investment review. Starting 15 October, the fund, which had $3.1 billion in assets under management at the end of ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

Finance firms power down to power up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Financial services data centres are a large drain on power and can add millions of dollars to utility bills, but it doesn't have to be that way, said an IT expert. Gary Hull, the country managing director of Raritan, an award-winning power management ...

FOS swamped with complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is changing how it deals with investments, life insurance and superannuation complaints to cope with rising complaint volumes, particularly in financial planning. The service noted it saw a 77 per cent increase ...

Fiducian improves online platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
Fiducian Portfolio Services has upgraded its online platform interface to improve reporting and transaction services for advisers. Now in its ninth year of providing online services, Fiducian Online's latest release include improved reporting and client ...

QIC splits Aussie eq into boutiques

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
The $65 billion fund manager QIC is restructuring its Australian equities team into separate boutiques of small and large companies - and closing two businesses in its existing line-up. QIC's review of its business strategy earlier this year saw it ...

RBC Dexia launches unit registry

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
RBC Dexia Investor Services has launched SARA Web for Australia - a global third party administrator-backed real-time unit registry. SARA (Shareholder Accounting & Registration Application) helps give flexibility in areas such as fund ownership and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
Activity on the Australian sharemarket was subdued in Monday morning trading ahead of a US public holiday, with selected industrial and gold stocks supporting the local market's marginal gains. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.7 ...

Mercer wins ANZ Staff Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The $2 billion ANZ Australian Staff Superannuation Scheme has dropped Russell Employee Benefits for Mercer as its administration provider. In a press statement released today, the fund announced it had selected Mercer to provide administration and member ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... continue to disagree to agree. But whereas the previous two meetings - November 2008 and April 2009 - were in held in a state of red alert because the threat that the global financial and economic systems would vapourised was becoming real, the weekend's ...