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QIC appoints former HESTA marketing head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
QIC has scored a major coup when it poached former HESTA executive manager of marketing strategy Bruce Stafford become its new head of marketing. Stafford left after seven years at HESTA, where he won multiple awards, including two ASFA Communications ...

IFSA names three for industry excellence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Asteron's Gerard Kerr, Colonial First State Investment's Philip Barlin and QIC's Angela Keane have been awarded the coveted Industry Excellence awards from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). Kerr, who is head of claims at Asteron ...

CBA launches $370m IWL offer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, owner of leading sharetrading services provider CommSec, is set to buy listed wealth management and broking group IWL for more than $370 million. CBA has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed to acquire all of ...

CBRE Investors announces Aust NZ head

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Investors has announced Greg Keene as the face of the company for Australia and New Zealand. CBRE Investors appointed Keene the authorised representative for the company for Australia and New Zealand as part of their plan to ...

AustralianSuper presents pension made easy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
AustralianSuper has unveiled a new in-house account-based pension for its 160,000 eligible members. Chief executive, Ian Silk, said he was expecting a strong uptake from eligible members with the pension being made available from January 2008. "With ...

Fidelity chief resigns

Michael Ohlsson has resigned as the managing director of Fidelity Investments Australia citing personal reasons. His decision came after three years at the helm and after an intense period of product launches and staff expansion. Since October 2005 ...

Avanteos platform fails to find buyer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has failed to attract a buyer for its Avanteos platform, after bids from potential buyers did not match their expectations. CBA initially looked at selling Avanteos following a strategic review of its platform business earlier ...

Treasury group seeds another boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
The Treasury Group (TTG), the funds management incubation and development group, has entered into an agreement to establish a new boutique asset manager to be known as Cannae Capital Partners that will target Australian and New Zealand equities. The ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today on a strong lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0720 AEST, the September share price index was 19 points higher at 6,425. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

No multi-sector managers deserve five-stars: S&P

S&P Fund Services has awarded 28 multi-sector fund managers with a four-star rating but stopped short of recommending any of the fund managers among the 250 multi-sector funds analysed with the coveted five-star badge. The 2007 multisector report was ...