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AustralianSuper moniker confusion

A battle may emerge over the use of the moniker 'AustralianSuper' with almost identical names being registered and similar logos appearing on two funds' websites. Recently merged mega-fund AustralianSuper successfully registered its trustee company ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
The share market is expected to open higher after a rally on Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0806 AEST, the September share price index contract was up 60 points to 4,974. Today, Alinta and Woodside Petroleum will release first half results ...

St.George to re-hire lenders as contractors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
In move that would provoke uproar if applied to financial advisers, St.George Bank will offer to transition some of its non-branch mortgage sales force in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria to independent contractors restricted to selling only ...

Hyperion chairman abdicates

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
The chairman of boutique value manager Hyperion Asset Management, Charles Kiefel, has resigned from his role after three years in the position citing future potential conflicts of interest risks. Kiefel said there could be future conflicts between Hyperion's ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
The Australian share market was firmer at noon today as the local bourse shrugged off a weaker offshore lead and found strength in solid reporting results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 44 points at 4,993.2, while the all ordinaries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Woodside Petroleum chairman, Charles Goode, has announced that the energy producer is likely to soon get approval to supply the Californian market with LNG via specially designed ships which will anchor off the US coast and then pump the gas through ...

MacarthurCook shares up five-fold as FUM tops $1bn

Property fund specialist MacarthurCook is riding the crest of the managed property fund boom with its shares up 455 per cent and funds under management (FUM) reaching $1 billion in just over three years. "MacarthurCook's growth has been breathtaking ...

Mergers deliver cost savings to members

Vision Super and CARE Super may have abandoned plans to merge but those who took the leap, such as AustralianSuper and AUSCOAL Super, are enjoying big savings from merging their operations. Speaking at the annual Fund Executives Association (FEAL) conference ...

Get rid of the Greek: Russell

The separation of alpha and beta when chasing the highest investment returns may be all the rage right now, but according to the head of Russell Investment the less Greek used in industry jargon the better off investors will be. Alan Schoenheimer, managing ...

VIC and TAS region hungry for financial planners

A national recruitment firm has reported a staggering 80 per cent increase in financial planning job ads for the Melbourne, regional Victorian and Tasmanian regions in the last six months alone, twice the demand in Sydney and NSW. The data was released ...