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Cavendish buys Bendzulla Actuarial

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Cavendish Superannuation has bought actuarial and retirement services group, Bendzulla Actuarial. Bendzulla is a consulting actuarial practice headquartered in Hobart and services clients nationally. The firm has qualified actuaries resident in most ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... Henry's KISS. It is adopting only four of the 138 recommendations: the 40 per cent Resource Profits Tax; the lowering of the company tax rate; concessions to small businesses, and; increasing superannuation contributions. By now you would have read about ...

Macq wealth mgmt post strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... estate dropped 13 per cent. Macquarie group managing director and chief executive, Nicholas Moore, said that all of the company's operating businesses delivered improved results compared to 2008 and expect next year to be equally positive. "Subject to ...

S&P places sell rating on AMP fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
S&P Fund Services has assigned a 'sell' rating to the AMP Capital Small Companies Fund after AMP Capital Investors announced the resignation of its portfolio manager, Michael Hughes. This leads to uncertainty surrounding the future of an Australian ...

Asteron leaves KiwiSaver market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Asteron is pulling out of the New Zealand KiwiSaver market. The firm is winding up its KiwiSaver Scheme at the end of May, which had more than 6,000 members with approximately $33 million in funds under management (FUM). The decision to withdraw from ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... determined to stay the course for as long as it takes, there's no other way for the economy but to improve. Just look at the US company earnings reports released last night. According to Bloomberg, "Income for the first three months of this year is beating ...

AFS considers sale offer

AFS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... Group Ltd (AFS Group) has received an incomplete offer from an undisclosed buyer to buy all of the issued shares in the company. AFS chair Barry Stephen said that while the group remains committed to the planned IPO in 2012, he said the Board was obliged ...

CalPERS fights BoA directors election

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... by demonstrating competence, independence and its ability to stay on top of challenges," Simpson said. "To do this, the company needs to set out clearly how it is addressing succession planning. With the turmoil of the financial crisis, and the painful ...

HSBC funds now on IOOF platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Financial planners can now access the HSBC GH Diversified Strategy Fund and HSBC Asia Select Equity Fund through IOOF's investment platforms, including Pursuit Select. The HSBC GH Diversified Strategy Fund provides access to a fund of hedge funds strategy ...

LUCRF Super appoints global eq managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Industry fund LUCRF Super has appointed Arrowstreet Capital LP, MFS Investment Management and DFA Australia (Dimensional) as its new international equity managers. The appointments follow the fund's international equity review, which is part of an overall ...