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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 ...

OptiMix appoints Schroders to global small caps portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Schroders Investment Management has been appointed as a manager in OptiMix Investment Management's Global Small Companies Portfolio, replacing Wellington Management. As part of a regular OptiMix review process, Schroders was brought into the portfolio ...

AMG appoints ex-GMO exec to head Aussie office

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
The Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has appointed GMO Australia's ex-head of business development as managing director of its new Australian office. Gregor Rennie joins AMG from his role as head of business development with GMO Australia, having previously ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
London based fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home ...