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Morningstar buys Aegis

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Morningstar Australasia has agreed to buy Aegis Equities Research from its holding company. Aegis Equities Research was founded in 1999 and services institutions, financial advisers and retail clients. The firm has a web-based research platform that ...

BT Super for Life hits the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
BT Financial Group won 5,000 new BT Super for Life customers in just six weeks through Westpac-owned channels Bank SA and St.George Bank. Melanie Evans, head of superannuation at BT Financial Group, said the successful campaign are due to the bank's ...

Omega hires insto sales manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Omega Global Investors has hired former Vanguard Investments Australia executive, Erica Hall, as manager of institutional sales as the fund manager launches two bond funds to the market. Hall spent eight years at Vanguard working across institutional ...

Britten exits BlackRock

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Will Britten, head of BlackRock Australia, is leaving the firm mid year while Damien Frawley has been appointed his successor. In a press statement, Britten announced that he will be leaving the firm in order to rebalance his work and home commitments. ...

AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Affiliated Managers Group is paying US$775 million for Pantheon Ventures, a subsidiary of Russell Investments. AMG said in a press statement that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Pantheon for $775 million in cash, with the potential ...

HOSTPLUS pushes into GC retail market

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... of communication for people with long-term investments. The research also suggests that members prefer to use a multi-channel approach to managing their finances. "Investments of this nature are a big win for local businesses, and the council supports ...

CFS signs distribution deal with Aspect

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
Colonial First State has signed an exclusive alliance with Aspect Capital to distribute the investment manager's products in Australia and New Zealand. Aspect Capital specialises in futures trading that seeks to provide consistent returns across more ...

Shadow shop reveals service gap among planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Fund Financial Planning Shadow Shop Report, compared the customer experience of IFFP businesses against IFAs and banking channel advisers. The research followed 200 people involved in 480 mystery shopping events across 19 of the industry's major dealer ...

Netwealth buys $700m FUA planning firm Bridgeport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... distribute netwealth and we have distribution ties through our dealership FPSA. To own the distribution is the next obvious channel," he said. He said netwealth had spent more than four years assessing different financial planning models and practices ...

Johnson Report maps out new world order

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
The report commissioned by the Government a year ago to look into how to improve Australia's appeal as a financial services centre has come up with a host of recommendations that could transform the local wealth management industry. The Australian Financial ...