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Perpetual seeks SMSF leadership role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... biggest single purchase the firm has ever made. "We've realised it's one of our more important spaces to participate as a group. Not just from a commercial view but from a industry point of view we have to make a far more greater leadership position ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The debate on chief executive pay heats up after the discovery that senior executives in many of the banks the government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... brokers Aon, Benfield and Willis have also signed as project partners. The arrangement was finalised seven months after a group of global reinsurers and brokers, and SWIFT, collaborated to come up with a shared industry solution for transmitting data ...

Nestle shuffles asset allocations

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
Corporate fund Nestle Australia Group Superannuation Fund has revised the asset allocations of its conservative and high growth options following a review of its investment structure. Among the changes were a 2 per cent increase in Aussie equity to ...

Mariner to shed more light on restructure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
Mariner Financial is to announce its long awaited results, delayed for two weeks, in the next couple of days - with executive chair Bill Ireland expected to provide more details on the proposed recapitalisation of the business. Shares in Mariner were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... some of its iron ore shipments after a rail car dumper sustained damage in Western Australia. The miner is also among a group of power generators that failed a WWF scorecard on carbon reduction performance. Ben Polkinghorne from Patersons Securities ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... unsustainable...so that's certainly helped minimise the downside this year," she said. The consultant, which was established in 1994 by a group of industry funds, also have a high allocation to alternative assets particularly infrastructure, direct property ...

AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
AXA Group's Paris-based asset management business is providing its expertise across European property, private equity, structured finance and fund of hedge funds to Australian institutions. Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) director of Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open in positive territory after US stocks ended mostly higher overnight. At 0740 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was up six points at 4,992. Today, the ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
A group of investors and asset consultants, sitting on a panel at an InAssociation infrastructure conference in Sydney on Wednesday, was asked to make a call on the future of the investment bank specialist funds model. They agreed it was over. The infrastructure ...