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TAL increases focus on direct insurance with buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
TAL has made further steps towards the direct insurance market after acquiring the remaining 90% shares that it didn't already own of online life insurance comparator Lifebroker business. Lifebroker provides consumers choice and comparison of life insurance ...

Industry funds and corporates must talk more: Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... managed. "Attitudes today on environmental issues, sustainability, social reporting, corporate behaviour, have a lot more focus from the community and trustees than they did 27 years ago," he said. All this means that industry funds have ever more active ...

AusSuper's in-house plan to save $150m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
AustralianSuper has completed the first phase of its five-year plan to bring 30% of its investment management operations in house, including the addition of 23 new staff members. The industry fund said the first phase saw the "implementation of the ...

Industry Funds Management name change

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Global fund manager Industry Funds Management (IFM) has changed its name to IFM Investors. The organisation was founded over 20 years ago and is owned by 30 major superannuation funds. It invests its $48 billion funds under management on behalf of five ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...

Dalton Nicol Reid consistency rewarded with Lonsec upgrade

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Dalton Nicol Reid (DNR)'s flagship Australian Equities High Conviction Portfolio has received a 'Recommended' rating from research house Lonsec. The model portfolio aims to outperform the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by 4% per annum over rolling three ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... the year's high of 5314 and if we break that that will see us trade at a fresh five-and-a-half year high," he told AAP. A focus on Friday will be the release of Chinese data including the important gross domestic product (GDP) growth, which would boost ...

IFM to open Tokyo office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... strong hub for accessing both Japan and the broader region. "This is a long-term commitment for IFM. Initially, we will focus on our global infrastructure debt assets and then look to broaden this over time. Under Eddy's leadership, we will hire an initial ...

Secrets of world's greatest investors revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... painstakingly whittled down a list of thousands of investors to arrive at this shortlist of elite managers. He chose to focus on investors who had been in the game for more than 25 years to find out if there were any common factors which would serve ...

Nikko AM acquires Asian equity fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... Sartori said. "Our sectoral coverage approach will be highly complementary with Nikko AM's more geographic and thematic focus," he said. "This acquisition brings us sophisticated Asian equity strategies, which are gaining well-deserved traction among ...