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Invesco appoints head of sales from BT

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Invesco Australia has appointed a former BT Investment Management executive as its new head of sales. Eben Bowditch was formerly a senior institutional business development manager at BT Investment Management and will now focus on building Invesco's ...

Government establishes superannuation fund for the Australian Defence Force (ADF)

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The government will establish new superannuation arrangements for people joining the Australian Defence Force (ADF). As part of the new arrangements ADF members will be able to choose which superannuation fund they belong to and, for the first time ...

Qantas Super appoints new investment adviser

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
Mercer will become Qantas Super's new principal investment adviser, taking over from Towers Watson who had held a contract with the fund for 10 years. After a review Mercer has been appointed for an initial five-year term with Arcadia Managed Investments ...

Perpetual appoints senior JANA investment exec

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Perpetual Investments has appointed a long-standing JANA exec head of diversified strategies. Michael O'Dea is currently the head of investment and implemented consulting at JANA and will join Perpetual Investments in late May. He has spent 13 years ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Catholic Super has become the first investor in a new actively-managed AllianceBernstein Australian equities investment fund which aims to help investors in or near retirement. The Fund will form part of diversified investment options available to Catholic ...

AIST reshuffles board, names new president

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The current chair of HESTA will become the new president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Angela Emslie, who is also a director of Frontier Advisors, has been a director of AIST since 2007. She replaces Cate Wood, who has ...

AustralianSuper consortium picks up QLD motorways for $7bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
AustralianSuper, as part of a consortium led by toll road owner Transurban, is set to pay $7 billion to buy a string of Brisbane motorways from the Queensland government. The consortium said it had signed an agreement to buy Queensland Motorways, which ...

Treasury Group buys ex-Macquarie boutique

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Treasury Group is set to invest in Australian and Asian private equity investment and advice firm ROC Partners, which was formed after a management buyout of the business from Macquarie group. ROC is majority owned by its management team and specialises ...

Incoming NAB CEO to look at "legacy issues"

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Incoming National Australian Bank (NAB) chief executiveA and managing director Andrew Thorburn said that he will retain a core focus on the Australian and New Zealand franchises and will address the bank's ongoing legacy issues when he takes the reins ...

RBA questions super fund infra investment

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has questioned the role of superannuation funds boosting funding for infrastructure investment, saying that it is not appropriate to mandate funds to invest in assets to meet "broader national objectives." In its ...