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Energy Super board reduces in size, new members

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
Energy Super has appointed two new board members alongside the departure of four fund directors from the board, which sees it reduced from 12 to 10 members. Scott Wilson and Mark Williamson have joined the energy industry fund board, while outgoing ...

UBS: Stocks gaining momentum

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
Consumer and domestic stocks may be making a comeback as cyclical indicators improve, according to UBS's chief economist. Scott Haslem, chief economist for UBS Investment Bank in Australia discussed the cyclical developments of the local economy in ...

Lonsec adds three to research team

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
Research house Lonsec has added three to its ranks as it continues to build out its investment consulting team with newly created roles. In one newly-created role, Anh Nguyen has joined Lonsec as quantitative analyst, providing quantitative research ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Standard & Poor's has downgraded the ratings of major US banks, including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, by one notch. The ratings agency said it reviewed its ratings on 37 of the world's largest ...

Westpac Group restructure, Coombe resigns

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
Westpac has announced a major group structural shake-up, which sees the creation of two new divisions, senior appointments and the resignation of group executive Rob Coombe. The new Australian Financial Services (AFS) division combines Westpac Retail ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street showed good gains overnight. At 0830 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 4286. No major economics is expected on Friday. In equities ...

Adviser hiring blitz at Macquarie Private Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Macquarie Private Wealth has added 19 new advisers across six of its state offices in the past six months as the group builds out its national team. Six advisers have joined the Brisbane team each with different area of focus for the group including ...

Perpetual updates performance, remuneration

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
The Perpetual Limited Annual General Meeting saw the firm admit financial performance needed to improve but said it was on the right track with talk of new products in the next financial year, as well as disclosure of the firm executive remuneration ...

Aberdeen adds to Australian fixed income team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
Aberdeen Asset Management has made two new senior appointments to its Australian fixed income team. John Manning joins as investment manager and senior credit analyst from Royal Bank of Scotland where he was director of credit strategy for Australia ...

Yellow Brick Road launches funds management arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
Yellow Brick Road Holdings has partnered with Coolabah Capital Investments to enter the funds management space, with plans to produce internally-manufactured alternative funds management solutions. Through a shareholders' agreement between the two firms ...