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PAC merges with eQuant, names Greg Kirk as non-exec

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
Executive search firm Primary Asset Consulting (PAC), which advises and recruits for the wealth, funds and investment banking industries announced that recruitment house eQuant had joined its group of companies earlier this week. Led by industry veteran ...

SSgA hits $45m in 24 hours

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
State Street's new high dividend yield ETF has amassed over $45 million in FUM from investors a day after the strategy was listed on the ASX. Rob Goodlad, SSgA senior managing director for Australia, confirmed the firm's SPDR MSCI Australia Select High ...

MLC says no to PIH stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
MLC has opted out of buying a minority stake in Professional Investment Holdings - leaving the door open for Aviva Overseas Holdings to divest or keep its remaining 20 per cent stake in one of Australia's largest planning firms. MLC confirmed in a statement ...

Scammer targets AMP and AXA investors

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
ASIC has issued warnings to AMP and AXA investors to watch out for unsolicited shares offers from Hassle Free Share Sales. ASIC has put a stop order against Hassle Free Shares Sales, preventing the firm from making offers to buy AMP and AXA Asia Pacific ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
In a further sign of the fragile state of the US economy, one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed ...

ADB inaugural clean energy bond sale

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) continues its support of clean energy projects after the sale of its first clean energy bonds for AU$239 million. HSBC Securities (Japan) Ltd lead managed the transaction of the bond, which was distributed by more than ...

APESB extends consultation

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has extended its consultation period on a proposal to ban members who offer financial planning services from charging asset-based fees from July next year. The Accounting Professional & Ethical ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
Smoking is bad. Just ask the Breckland Council in Norfolk. It has just announced plans to force its staff to clock off clock on when they go on ciggie breaks - and then make up for lost hours. But as they say, one man's trash is another man's stash. ...

BlackRock to develop super SMA

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
BlackRock, one of the pioneers of separately managed accounts (SMA) in Australia, revealed plans to launch a superannuation version of its customised portfolio service next year. James Langlands, co-head of customised portfolio solutions at BlackRock ...

AMP appoints business partnership manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
AMP Financial Planning has appointed former Westpac lead state banker David Randall to the newly created role of business partnership manager. Randall will look after North Queensland, covering the area north from Rockhampton and west to Mt Isa. AMP ...