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Countplus appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Countplus is welcoming the former chair of the Financial Planning Association as its new chief executive. Matthew Rowe will take the reins at the ASX-listed wealth management group having been a director since October last year. He is also chair and ...

New Blue Sky MD shoots for $5bn

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... statement," he told an ASX update the firm would aim for $10 billion in AUM "shortly thereafter." Describing Blue Sky's new US business as "one of substance," he pointed to the firm's first US private equity transaction in FY16 and said he expected "we ...

Centrepoint establishes adviser transition program

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Centrepoint Alliance has launched a transition program to assist experienced financial advisers launch their own advice businesses. Centrepoint, one of Australia's leading networks of non-aligned advisers, is looking to partner with experienced salaried ...

Fund administrator purchases New York business

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... Fundadministration chief executive Denise DePaola will join the group's executive team, becoming chief executive of MainstreamBPO's US business. The deal is expected to increase MainstreamBPO's funds under administration by 7% to $94 billion and the ...

Hunter Hall director steps down

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
A 16-year veteran non-executive director of Hunter Hall International is to resign from the business. Mark Forstmann, who joined the firm in 2000, will step down from his role as a non-executive director of Hunter Hall International and its subsidiary ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... rate cut announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on the 3rd of May. US durable goods orders Indications on US business investment remains mixed. The headline number is good. Total new orders for durable goods - a leading indicator of business ...

Platypus Asset Management announces CIO's departure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
Platypus Asset Management's co-founder and chief investment officer has announced he will step away from his investment and management responsibilities due to health reasons. Donald Williams will remain with the Platypus business, acting in a business ...

Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
There's a kind of hush in financial markets as focus turned to the Fed's FOMC meeting which started overnight. While the Fed is not expected to alter monetary policy at all at this month's meeting, there's a niggling sense of anticipation of what Janet's ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... development managers. MLC Private Equity makes appointment to open New York office - Andrew Kwee will head up the new US business. SG Hiscock appoints head of research - Hamish Tadgell joins from Goldman Sachs, where he was chief investment officer for ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... four to five per cent in consolidated passenger unit revenue, a key industry benchmark, citing lower-than-expected US business class sales. Oil-services stocks surged as US oil prices finished above $61 a barrel, the highest level all year. Halliburton ...