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FOS appoints Belleville to board

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has appointed former Suncorp executive, Robert Belleville, as director for the service. Belleville previously worked at Suncorp as group executive of personal insurance and, prior to that, was chief executive at ...

BNY Mellon pushes into Germany

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
BNY Mellon has bought the BHF Asset Servicing business for $374 million in a move that makes BNY Mellon the second largest asset servicing provider in Germany. The deal means BNY Mellon will buy BHF Asset Servicing GmbH from BHF BANK Aktiengesellschaft ...

Caution drives SMSFs to remain in cash: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
More than half of self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are not planning to change their cash allocation, according to a new survey, despite more than a third of respondents stating over half their assets are parked in the asset class. The Ubank survey ...

ING enhances OneCare

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
ING Australia has improved its life insurance product, OneCare, that allows policy holders to increase their cover by up to 25 per cent on the amount insured on every third year policy anniversary without a medical check-up. The insurance firms 'future ...

New FM for Share Plus

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Perpetual Investments has appointed former CPH/Ellerston Capital portfolio manager, Paul Skamvougeras, to manage the Perpetual Wholesale Share-Plus Long/short fund (Share Plus). Skamvougeras worked at CPH/Ellerston Capital for seven years managing the ...

AIA on hiring spree

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
AIA Australia has appointed five executives and promoted a number of others across its product and adviser teams after the insurer's national dealership manager and head of adviser services left the firm. Former AXA Australia senior product manager ...

AUI hires former Intech exec

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed former Intech Investment Consultants head of institutional client services, Leonie Pratt, as chief operating officer. During her eight years at Intech she held a number of roles including head of investment ...

452 Capital retains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Standard & Poor's has backed the 452 Capital investment team to deliver solid returns despite the fund manager's co-founder and lead portfolio manager, Peter Morgan, being forced to take extended leave for medical reasons. The ratings firm placed two ...

Aus Unity improves customer software

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
Australian Unity has hired Sword Ciboodle to improve its customer related business software and services. The financial services firm has developed a roadmap to deploy Sword Ciboodle across a number of businesses, with in initial focus on campaign management ...

ING IM appoints Taurus for gold strategy

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
ING Investment Management has appointed Sydney-based Taurus Funds Management to invest in gold and precious metals within the OptiMix Diversified funds. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer, multi strategies group at ING Investment Management ...