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SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Harnessing investor appetite for products focusing on risk management, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is launching their Global Equity Total Return product into the Australian market. Arlene Rockefeller, CFA and senior managing director of global ...

Smart outsourcing or global offloading?

Financial services companies need to change their perception around outsourcing IT functions overseas, according to a panel of IT experts at yesterday's Future of Banking and Financial Services technology conference. Derek Goh, executive general manager ...

Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Index manager Vanguard joins the growing list of investment companies championing investor financial literacy when it launched a line of educational materials based on their popular Plain Talk Guide format. The guides cover seven different topics including ...

Challenger FP model pays dividends

Eight months after a business restructure, Challenger Financial Planning chief executive Greg Kirk said the group's new business model has worked wonders. Only a couple of years ago Challenger's financial planning business was trailing behind its rivals. ...

Industry funds on top again

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
Industry super fund default and growth options have again outperformed the retail master trusts over one, three and five years, continuing a now too familiar trend, according to the latest Rainmaker research. Research undertaken for the Industry Super ...

The future of wealth management

The power of brand, the realisation that choice and flexibility is what we sell, and the evolving definition of balanced investing as alternative assets become mainstream are just three of the trends changing the face of wealth management, said Alex ...

Automate at ILOG speed

The world will never run out of rules but French software company ILOG has come up with ways to help mortgage brokers, insurers and stockbrokers keep on top of each and every one of them. Visiting Sydney mid this year, ILOG's founding chief executive ...

MLC gives clients $6.4m bonus

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
MLC has returned over $6.4 million in fund manager rebates to customers over the last twelve months, almost half of its $13.4 million-plus in returns over the past three years. More than forty of the funds listed on MLC's MasterKey and MasterKey Custom ...

MLC offers income protection, split premiums

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
MLC has added several new benefits to its Personal Protection Portfolio and Life Cover Super (LCS) insurance products, following recent changes to contribution limits and the removal of Reasonable Benefits Limits. The changes include the addition of ...

AMP launches new planner academy

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
AMP Financial Planning has launched two new recruitment, education and placement programs, based at their new Financial Planning Academy in St Leonards, Sydney. The two programs, dubbed Horizons and Planner Pathway, are designed to take prospective ...