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Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

The Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a four-pronged corporate strategy that includes merging two key units, improving IT and offering flexible employment in a bid to remain one of the country's leading banks. Commonwealth's chief executive officer, Ralph ...

PSS and CSS boards to merge

Fund consolidation pressures apply in the public sector too, and so the trustee boards that drive Australia's two commonwealth public sector super funds, PSS and CSS, are to merge. The proposed new structure will be called the Australian Reward Investment ...

Change of directors at JF Meridian

Director of JF Meridian Management, Tony Pitt, has resigned from the company and will be replaced by Andrew Butler, who moves from a director's role with parent company Mirvac. Pitt's resignation as trust manager is effective 28 April but as of yesterday ...

State Street celebrates 20 years in Aust with SSgA reaching $60 bn

State Street has just marked 20 years in Australia, while its investment arm, State Street Global Advisers (SSgA), has just passed $60 billion in assets under management for Australian clients. Rob Goodlad, managing director of SSgA in Australia, said ...

Super SA partners with IFFP to offer commission-free advice

Starting next month, Super SA will be partnering with Industry Fund Financial Planning (IFFP), a division of IFS, to offer commission-free financial advice to their 180,000 members. IFS general manager David Haynes said that following a tender process ...

Macq wrap crosses the line first for retail inflows

Macquarie Wrap Solutions received the most net retail inflows in the final quarter of 2005, handing it first place for growth in funds under administration for the quarter and making it number one for inflows for the second half of 2005. S&P's latest ...

Pam McAlister joins the Greenfields team

Pam McAlister has agreed to become a principal on the Melbourne-based Greenfields Financial Services Lawyers team. Daniel Levy, principal at Greenfields, is very positive about what McAlister's appointment, effective 3 April, will offer the firm. "She's ...

IDT weighs up its software options

Investment Data Technologies (IDT) administrators announced they are reviewing their options to grow its financial planning software and insurance quotation system businesses, following the sale of IDT's data business unit. IDT administrators sold the ...

New hedge fund managers need the right skills: AIMA

The country's $22 billion hedge funds industry will continue to grow at phenomenal rates, but the challenge is to ensure new hedge fund managers have the right skills, said the Alternative Investment Management Association's (AIMA) chairman Kim Ivey. ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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