CSSA calls for insurance service fee for group insurance

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The Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA) is calling on the Government to consider allowing corporate super specialists providing insurance services to employer groups to charge an insurance service fee. The... Read more continue reading

AMP Capital forms fundamental equity team

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AMP Capital has created a new Australian Fundamental Equities team, enabling it to offer a stronger range of investment products and solutions to both institutional and retail clients. AMP Capital... Read more continue reading

S&P assigns Four-Star ‘NEW’ Rating to Threadneedle Global Equity Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today released its four-star ‘NEW’ rating on the Threadneedle Global Equity Fund, managed by Threadneedle Asset Management.  Threadneedle is a dedicated global equities capability which... Read more continue reading

Aviva Investors: winner S&P 2011 Australian Equities Small Cap award

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Aviva Investors has been awarded the Australian Equities – Small Cap sector award at the 2011 Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Fund Awards. These awards acknowledge leading fund managers in an... Read more continue reading

Australia’s first skyscraper to host AMP charity abseil

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AMP employees and members of the public will be given a unique opportunity to abseil off the iconic AMP building at Circular Quay as part of a charity event this... Read more continue reading

Australian Unity Property Income Fund’s rating affirmed as Three-Star

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today affirmed the three-star rating held by Australian Unity Property Income fund.  The fund is managed by Australian Unity Property Ltd. and is a core... Read more continue reading

PIMCO wins S&P Australian and global fixed interest awards

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Leading bond fund manager PIMCO has won the Australian Fixed Interest and International Fixed Interest sector categories of the Standard & Poor’s Australian Fund Awards. PIMCO was also named as... Read more continue reading

Female Excellence in Advice Award – finalists announced

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) today announced the finalists of its inaugural Female Excellence in Advice Award (the Award), a joint initiative between the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA),... Read more continue reading

Schroder takes out top S&P award

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services, in association with Professional Planner magazine, today named Schroder Investment Management Australia Ltd. as its 2011 Fund Manager of the Year. Macquarie Professional Series picked... Read more continue reading

AFA: Government’s FoFA legislation decimates small business advisers

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The Future of Financial Advice Bill (the FoFA Bill) introduced into Parliament last week by the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, will, according to Rice Warner Research cited in... Read more continue reading