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Financial planning

15 February 2005

Slim pickings in global shares

Overseas shares funds followed the US market to mediocre returns last month, with just three of the 78 funds available in Australia making money for investors before fees...

Financial planning

13 February 2005

Government scuttles Senate super suggestions

Using superannuation to defray health care costs is just one suggestion dismissed by the Government, in an almost total rejection of the Senate Select Committee on Supera...

Financial planning

13 February 2005

Sunsuper shines at dawn of choice

Publicly offered superannuation fund SunSuper is pushing its credentials on the eve of fund choice, boasting of a positive rating from a research house, and a series of c...

Funds management

10 February 2005

Aberdeen rebuilds Aussie equities team

Aberdeen Asset Management has partially plugged the hole left by the recent departure of two Australian equity managers, recruiting Mark Daniels from its London office as...

Financial planning

8 February 2005

Government outlays $244 million for co-contribution

The Federal Government has topped up the retirement savings of low to middle income earners by $244 million in the 19 months since the introduction of the superannuation ...

Financial planning

8 February 2005

Perpetual Private gets new boss

Perpetual Trustees has appointed a new head for its $5.5 billion Private Clients business....

Financial planning

6 February 2005

US to lead global returns lower

US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...

Life/Risk

3 February 2005

Zurich chief joins insurance council

Zurich Financial Services chief executive Tom Brown has been appointed to the board of the representative body for general insurers, the Insurance Council of Australia....

Financial planning

2 February 2005

Australian investors pose carbon questions

Several Australian investors have signed up to the 2005 Carbon Disclosure Project, an annual global effort to encourage the world’s largest companies to disclose their ca...

Financial planning

1 February 2005

MFS Group announces merger plans

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is to join forces with Gold Coast-based holiday accommodation group, Breakfree, to create a diversified property group with a market cap o...