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Asteron adds to sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Asteron appointed former AMP executive, Barry Strapps, as sales manager. Strapps has more than 30 years experience in financial services after working at AMP across a number of divisions including practice management, corporate superannuation and business ...

Qantas Super gets $66m injection

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
The $5.6 billion Qantas Superannuation fund will receive $66 million in extra funds over the next three years from Qantas Airways Limited into its defined benefit divisions. According to a statement on the super fund's website, both Qantas Super and ...

JV raises $1bn for Indian infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
The State Bank of India and Macquarie Group raised over $1 billion in capital to invest in Indian infrastructure projects with a goal to raise around $2 billion in additional capital over the next few years. According to a joint statement, global investors ...

Lonsdale provides practice tools

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
Lonsdale Financial Group has launched a new practice management tool to help the group's financial planners to make their businesses more efficient and improve their overall service to clients. The group's practice management division, Catalyst Strategic ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
US investors can now access a liquid and transparent hedge fund replication strategy after IndexIQ launched the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. The New York based firm's exchange traded fund (ETF) seeks to replicate ...

Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Local investors are dipping their toes back into property market but are opting for well-diversified global property trusts instead of concentrated A-REITs. According to Mick O'Brien, chief executive of Invesco Australia, the firm continues to receive ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

ANZ sheds planning staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
ANZ plans to make 58 staff redundant from the bank's financial planning division citing poorer-than-expected demand for advice. According to an ANZ spokesperson, the bank reviewed its financial planning division numbers and cut the number of roles by ...

Countdown to CIMA scholarships: IMCA

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Investment consultants have two weeks to apply for an Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) scholarship worth $6,000. Scholarship winners will participate in IMCA's Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) program. The program is ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
My forecasts are gloomier than yours! The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the ...