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Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

Enhanced Investment Technologies wins award

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
Florida-based Enhanced Investment Technologies Investment Management (EITIM) has snagged the 'Quantitative Investment Manager of the Year' for 2008. EITIM, which was awarded a $476 million mandate in September by ipac, was named best quant manager at ...

PLUM's new chief to push comms

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Plum Financial Services' new managing director Paul Carter flags plans to boost its communication campaign and delay some investment projects scheduled for next year to 2010 to steer Plum through a difficult 2009. Carter, who took over the reigns from ...

GFC wipes $80b FUM

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Retail managed funds in Australia suffered nearly $80 billion in losses, according to data from Plan for Life. Overall retail managed funds at the end of September totalled $513 billion, down 15.2 per cent or $78.1 billion over the past year. Macquarie ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Aviva has launched a new Income Daily Living product that insures non-working spouses and Australians in high risk occupations. The new product will offer protection to occupations traditionally classified as 'too risky', such as labourers, window cleaners ...

Morgan Stanley launches Aus Eq fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched a top performing Australian Equity Fund previously available to instos into the retail investor market. The Morgan Stanley Equity Fund is an actively-managed and highly concentrated fund that ...

Infrastructure still key to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Industry super funds' appetite for unlisted infrastructure assets will not wane despite the financial crisis because the sector's investment nature aligns closely with the funds' long term goals, said David Whiteley from the Industry Super Network. ...

Standard Chartered signs on SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Tech firm SmartStream Technologies has signed on Standard Chartered Bank onto its TLM Reconciliations system to create a global reconciliations platform. SmartStream said that Standard Chartered is hiring its services as part of an ongoing strategic ...

Lowenhaupt Global Advisors lands in Oz

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
US-based specialist financial advisory firm Lowenhaupt Global Advisors has set up shop in Sydney. Lowenhaupt Global Advisors, a firm that calls wealthy families its niche audience, has opened a Sydney office - the latest addition to the firm's existing ...

Pengana wins $50m Auscoal mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The $4.6 billion industry fund Auscoal Super has appointed a $50 million mandate with Pengana Capital. The coal-mining industry super fund invested the $50 million into the Pengana Global Volatility fund. According to Pengana, the placement follows ...