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Instos search for cash alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Corporate investors and government bodies are assessing alternatives to holding funds in government guaranteed deposits as cash rates fall and the $1 million fee eats away at returns. Subash Pillai, executive director and head of cash and fixed interest ...

Netwealth adds tech services manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
The netwealth group appointed former Genesys Wealth Advisers executive, Keat Chew to head of technical services, as part of a strategy to develop a technical services division. This is the first time the group has hired a technical services manager. ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Speculation the government will cut back the health insurance rebate for high income earners lends weight to where it might wield the superannuation axe. A story published this morning in the Australian newspaper reports that the health insurance rebate ...

Sunsuper upgrades retirement program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Sunsuper, a fund that more than doubled in pension members during the 2007/08 financial year, has launched a pension product with an asset allocation that reflects post-retirement investor needs. Dubbed the Today and Tomorrow strategy; when investors ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by a positive lead from United States markets, better-than-expected jobs figures and a well-received quarterly profit result from Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp. Official data showed ...

Vanguard enters ETFs fray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia will go head to head with local exchange traded funds (ETFs) incumbents iShares and State Street when it launches three new ETFs on the ASX tomorrow. The group, which is already one of the largest providers of ETFs in ...

Finovia opts for Select

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Select Asset Management has scored a portfolio management mandate from new wealth management firm, Finovia Pty Limited. Finovia, a Melbourne based wealth management and strategic financial advisory business established last year appointed Select as ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The $30 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) took the full brunt of the stockmarket slump when it posted a 28 per cent loss in its Australian equities portfolio for the financial year to 31 March - and a 29 per cent loss in international ...

ING hires two distribution managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
ING Australia added two distribution managers to the firm's life risk division. Protip DasGupta was appointed NSW distribution manager and Rob McNeill was appointed Victorian distribution manager. DasGupta previously worked at as a business development ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
If you think Australia is having strange debates about how the government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette ...