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ING taps Ukraine insurance market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
ING Group extends its reach in Eastern Europe after receiving approval to provide its life insurance services in the Ukraine. The firm is expected to begin servicing this market from its head office in the country's capital, Kiev, in the first half ...

Term deposits competition heats up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... most appealing term deposit or cash product is mounting as investors remain cautious on domestic equity markets. Last week ING added the ANZ Flexible Term Deposit fund to its OneAnswer platform. Unlike other funds already in the market, the ANZ product ...

ING Aus appoints two senior Life Risk execs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
ING Australia has appointed a new head of product and marketing and head of strategy in Life Risk. Gerard Kerr, formerly head of claims at Asteron will be joining the group as head of product and marketing. He was most recently the chair of IFSA's working ...

ING NZ appoints first Aus chief

CAMERON BOGGS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Helen Troup, ING Australia's executive director of Life Risk, has been promoted as the first Australian chief executive of ING New Zealand. Paul Bedbrook, regional chief executive of ING Asia Pacific said Troup was promoted to the role after driving ...

Equator Principles still relevant: CFS GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... financing globally with total project capital costs of more than $10.3 million across all industry sectors. Signatories include ING Group, Credit Suisse Group, HBOS, Westpac Banking Corporation, JPMorgan Chase, ANZ, Rabobank Group, Societe Generale and ...

SMSFs take up instalment warrants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... the strategy and banks start providing more products that enable them to do so, according to SuperConcepts. Graeme Colley, ING Australia superannuation strategy manager, said SuperConcepts had dealt with 20 different clients using instalment warrants ...

Plato wins OptiMix mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... the portfolio will act as a hedge against falling stock prices," said Emmanuel Calligeris, head of portfolio solutions group ING Investment Management. Plato uses an active management approach with a 130/30 long/short strategy. The stock selection techniques ...

ING buys into Turkish pension market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Global Dutch financial institution ING Group purchased Turkey's first and only voluntary pension fund, Oyak Emeklilik for $180 million to tap into the country's pension market. Previously owned by OYAK Group and established in 2003, Oyak Emeklilik has ...

Retail super weigh in on transparency debate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... produce because you've got to do it over a graph rather than a table and it can get quite confusing." Meanwhile, Mark Pankhurst, ING Employer Super head of product and marketing, said the firm supported the notion of a performance table. "ING would definitely ...

Planner buying spree tops $17bn

... date was AXA's $150 million purchase of Genesys, which boasts $12 billion in FUA and 300-plus planners. This was followed by ING Australia's acquisition of FSP Group, which manages $2.5 billion FUA through more than 145 advisers. The third, fourth and ...