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BNP Paribas hires ex-IOOF exec

Custody and fund administration services provider BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Darren Booth as co-head of operations in Australia and New Zealand. Booth has joined BNP Paribas last month and has responsibility for all aspects of daily ...

Hillross hiring

Hillross has announced that Gina Mavraidis has been promoted to manager, national clients and corporate development, and a new NSW state manager has been recruited to fill her former role. Mavraidis, previously the NSW state manager, was the 2006 Hillross ...

Macq and UNSW do the maths

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop a faster mathematical method to calculate the risks of investing in highly complex finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers ...

BT gets Oarsome and rows ahead of fleet

... after work. A five-time Olympian with three gold medals and a bronze, Tomkins said there are many parallels between how to excel in sport and in finance. "You have to work out where you want to get to, but not focus on that end result. You want to focus ...

Centro growing US footprint

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... (CER) have succeeded in their $6.3 billion (US$5.0 billion) joint bid for US shopping centre owner and manager New Plan Excel Realty Trust. CNP will take a 64 per cent or $4 billion stake in New Plan and CER will hold the remaining 36 per cent $1.8 billion ...

Fin Wisdom appoints ex-MLC exec

Financial Wisdom, the financial planning business owned by the Commonwealth Bank, has appointed a new general manager, ex-MLC executive Tim Browne. Browne replaces Paul Barrett, who was promoted to general manager distribution at Colonial First State. ...

New chairman for SPAA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
The board of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has announced SuperConcepts technical manager, Graeme Colley, as the new chairman. Current chairman Peter Hogan will remain with SPAA as vice chair. Colley, technical ...

HESTA appoints three intl long-short managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
HESTA Super Fund has appointed Acadian Asset Management, AXA Rosenberg and AQR as global long-short managers with a total allocation of just under $300 million. The mandates represent one-tenth of their international equities strategic asset allocation ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Some good news on the agricultural commodities front has at last surfaced with the recent rains across the eastern seaboard improving the condition and consequently the selling prices for sheep, cattle and wheat. Sheep prices have about tripled in the ...

Centro to buy $6.35b US REIT

Centro Retail Trust (CER) and Centro are to acquire US-based New Plan Excel Realty Trust for $6.35 billion (US$5 billion) less than four months after the group signed another US REIT deal for Heritage for $4.35 billion. Shares in Centro were in a trading ...