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HOSTPLUS, CareSuper take top gongs at AIST awards

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Cooking competitions and Olympians were the winning formulas for HOSTPLUS and CareSuper with the two super funds winning the top awards at the annual AIST 2011 Awards for Excellence. The awards, attended by around 200 industry members, recognised diversity ...

Hunter Hall names Lowenstein replacement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
Ethical investment manager, Hunter Hall, has named its senior portfolio manager James McDonald as its new deputy chief investment officer to replace newly-departed officer, Jack Lowenstein. A senior portfolio manager at Hunter Hall since 2003, McDonald ...

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 ...

IRESS launches UK wealth management division

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
IRESS has launched its Wealth Management division in the United Kingdom on the back of its selection as strategic supplier of wealth management advice technology by Sesame Bankhall Group, the largest distributor of retail financial advice in the UK. ...

Accountants partner up with AXA and MLC to offer financial advice

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
Accountants are partnering up with AXA and MLC to provide the Institute of Public Accountants' 6,300 public practice members with a financial services package. The move comes in response to planned FOFA reforms, which will remove accountants' exemption ...

ASFA recognises super industry's best marcomms campaigns

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
The superannuation industry's best marketing and communications campaigns were honoured this morning at the ASFA 2011 Communications Awards presentation in Brisbane. The big winner was HOSTPLUS which scooped the pool, taking out four of the nine awards ...

WHK appoints Mercer, Macquarie Private Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
Large accountancy firm, WHK, has appointed Mercer and Macquarie Private Wealth to provide research and execution support to the $6 billion firm while a new head of research was also named. As a result of an extensive market review, WHK appointed Mercer ...

Private equity activity improves: research

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
Private equity and venture capital fund managers have invested record highs in Australian companies in the past three years according to the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. The annual report into the primary activities of ...

MacMillan wins AFA Adviser of the Year

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
West Australian financial planner, Troy MacMillan, has taken out the top gong at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) annual conference and been named Adviser of the Year for 2011. The award, sponsored by Zurich Financial Services Australia ...

Unlocking the door to adviser education

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
Jordan Hawke, executive general manager of Asteron announced the winner of the AFA Excellence in Education Award yesterday and said he was "blown away" by the calibre of nominees and how they transferred their educational skill sets to their communities. ...