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Rise and rise of consumer confidence with planners: CSAM

The financial planning industry's credibility is on the rise and consumers are trusting them more than ever, while even their 'client satisfaction' ratings are improving. In a joint research by Credit Suisse Asset Management and Investment Trends assessing ...

Vision Super eyes HBA for discount health cover deal

Vision Super is giving its members a pre-Christmas gift through a 5 per cent discount on their private health insurance, thanks to its tie-up with health fund HBA. Vision announced today that it struck a deal with HBA, part of global health care giant ...

ASIC calculator adds up allocated pension fees

ASIC is stepping into help retirees plan and decipher products and fees, by launching a new online pension calculator, that is now available through the ASIC website. ASIC has developed the first of what it expects will be a number of retirement income ...

Kelly trades in financial planning for insurance

Speculation ended today when it was announced that Kerrie Kelly is abdicating her short lived post with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) to take up a career in insurance. Kelly will take on the role of executive director of the Insurance Council ...

FPA chief exec Kelly resigns

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the search for a new CEO, after Kerrie Kelly announced her resignation only two years after taking up the position in 2003. Kelly will leave the FPA in March to take up another CEO role ...

Ausbil Dexia notches four stars

Ratings firm S&P awarded a four-star rating to two of Ausbil Dexia's funds, the Investment Trust Australian Active Equity and Dexia Sustainable Global Equity. S & P fund analyst Anatoli Schwand credits Dexia's strong quantitative and stock selection ...

Suncorp feels better now with Medibank mandate

Suncorp Investment Management has scored its first major institutional win after being awarded a $45 million mandate from Medibank Private. Medibank Private, Australia's largest health insurer, chose Suncorp's World Equities Trust for their global shares ...

Commodities protect against inflation and still give performance: BT

Investors looking to protect against inflation and still enjoy equity-like returns and risk should consider increasing their exposure to commodity markets. Richard Gibson, managing director of marketing for Banque AIG, the commodity futures manager ...

We will revolutionise multi-mgt through absolute returns: MLC

MLC's Chris Condon predicts that by applying their multi-manager approach to their new absolute return long term fund they will once again revolutionise the multi manager market. MLC's newly launched long-term absolute return (LTAR) fund proclaims itself ...

Vision and CARE merger 'talks' to tackle fund differences

Vision and CARE super have confirmed they are in merger talks, and while they concede that they are very different funds, senior management says 'if it's good for members, it's good for us.' CARE's Chairman, Barry Watchorn, said the main instigation ...