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Virgin blazes trail with redundancy cover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... group's managing director David Curneen told Financial Standard that Virgin's insurance business has been a real success story: the group has doubled its insurance book in the past 12 months as more people sign up to get insurance. Last September, the ...

The happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... are the headlines still littered with warnings and cautions? The Australian Financial Review, for instance, published this story today, "Buffett's making hay but issues a weather warning". Last Friday, Reuters had this: "Dow record not necessarily a ...

Dixon Advisory a fee for service success story

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
Dixon Advisory is transitioning its business across to full fee-for-service and to date, the results have been extremely positive. Tim Coates, associate director and head of property advisory at Dixon Advisory, said their fee for service revenue is ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... environment was strengthening all the time following better-than-expected data from the US. "The US is something of an untold story. Boosted by additional Fed liquidity, it's under-appreciated just how strong the economy is becoming," he said. The Boston-based ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... forecast it currently has for the US for 2013, "if the cuts are fully implemented". Why let the facts get in the way of a good story, right? And then it happened. Profit takers started taking profits heading into the final bell, sending both the Dow ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... expected S&P to be a fair and impartial umpire in issuing credit ratings, but the evidence we have uncovered tells a different story," said Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, in a statement. "Our investigation revealed that, despite their representations ...

Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets, increasingly via direct funds rather than funds of funds, according to global data from Towers Watson. The data shows that in 2012 its clients - which ...

Macquarie Life outperforms in satisfaction stakes

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Macquarie Life has been awarded a five-star status for overall satisfaction in the Beaton Benchmarks 2012 - Life Insurance Intermediaries Study for the fifth consecutive year, making it the only provider in the Australian insurance market to achieve ...

Aust custody and admin sector hits $2 trillion

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Due largely to a reenergised equity markets, total assets under custody for Australian investors grew by 8.7% to $2.03 trillion for the second half of the year to 31 December 2012, according to data released by peak industry body ACSA today. Industry ...

Loomis Sayles to launch CLO locally

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Apostle Asset Management has advised Financial Standard of plans by its client, Boston-based Loomis Sayles, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management to bring a next-gen CLO fund to the Australian market later this year. Expected be one of the ...