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Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Swanson leaves CommInsure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Simon Swanson is leaving the Commonwealth Bank of Australia after 30 years at the bank and four and a half years at the helm of CommInsure. Under his tenure, CommInsure became one of the largest insurers in Australia with inforce premiums of $1.5 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly lower after thin trade in the US on Friday and falls in key commodity prices. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was two points lower at 4,058. In ...

J.P. Morgan teams up with Linear AM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan and Linear Asset Management have developed a new SMA that has a built-in and adjustable capital protection feature against volatile markets. Linear AM has launched the Linear Continuously Protected SMA, with the underlying synthetic portfolio ...

Insurance needs more disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
The insurance industry can help address underinsurance by moving faster towards simplified disclosure, with fees and commissions displayed prominently in Product Disclosure Statements (PDS). Financial Standard asked some of the country's leading insurers ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
V for victory against the GFC. V for the V-shaped rebound in the Australian economy. V for 'very wrong' to those who continued to stick to their recession calls up to the very end. In case you missed it, the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Australian shares are are expected to open lower as caution returned to US markets after Tuesday's unexpected rally. Concerns were fuelled by auto giant General Motors moving further towards bankruptcy. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Just as leading Unions have stepped up their battle against lifting the retirement age, the government has been forced to dismiss their claims for special rules for manual workers labelling them unfair. The Australian newspaper today reported that the ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...