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Future Fund seeks hedge fund analyst

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The $63 billion government-backed Future Fund is ramping up its attention to the hedge fund space as it embarks on a hunt for a senior analyst with an expertise in hedge funds. The Future Fund is seeking the analyst to "help build one of Australia's ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Standard & Poor's is pulling out all the stops to cope with institutional demand, hiring five analysts to its local research division and creating an "out of cycle" ratings team to review new products. The ratings firm hired former Westpac Private Bank ...

Christian Super turns to microfinance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The $450 million Christian Super is ramping up its presence in the microfinance space by investing in two separate funds run by JPMorgan and Triodos Investment Management. The super fund is currently in negotiations with JPMorgan and is looking to invest ...

Storm ramps up HostPLUS media exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
The $7 billion industry fund HostPLUS has rounded up a good year of brand and media exposure via its sponsorship of rugby league team, Melbourne Storm. In the latest S-Comm report, produced by research company Repucom, the Melbourne Storm jersey is ...

Citibank narrows retail product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
Citibank has cut commercial mortgage lending and also personal instalment loans from its product offering. The bank will continue to concentrate on residential home loans and credit cards. Steve Ramage, head of mortgages, said the bank needed to invest ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
TOWER Australia ramps up its market share in the direct-to-market life insurance sector after it acquired InsuranceLine, one of the largest direct distributor of life insurance products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million ...

AXA to ramp up planning revenues by $60m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Advisers are expected to add up to $63 million to their books over the next five years through a new three-pronged business plan from AXA. AXA's new strategy revolves around the formula of securing the appropriate business partnerships, maximising the ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Just when you thought the financial crisis couldn't get any crazier, former Treasurer Peter Costello said planners are to blame for super fund members losing money from their super fund accounts following the stockmarket rout. "The government didn't ...

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
From slashing its energy consumption to designing 'green' buildings, Symantec joins the growing list of companies articulating their environmental policies - all mapped out in its first ever corporate responsibility report released this year. Among ...