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ING DIRECT announces new CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
ING DIRECT Australia will have a new chief executive from June as Vaughn Richtor announced his retirement from the country's sixth largest retail bank today. Richtor will also retire as chief executive of ING Retail Banking Asia. He will continue to ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
AustralianSuper is closing three investment options and replacing them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super fund will close its Australian Fixed Interest, International ...

QIC bolsters infrastructure team

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
QIC has appointed a partner in New York to its infrastructure team. Eric Belman was most recently managing director, business development at GE Power and Water. Prior to that, he oversaw mergers and acquisitions strategy at United Technologies and PepsiCo. ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). IFM Investors was not surprised by the level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind ...

AMP director retires, Wesfarmers director appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
AMP has announced that director and AMP Bank chair Paul Fegan will retire from his positions. In his stead, Wesfarmers non-executive director Vanessa Wallace will join the AMP board on March 1, 2016. Wallace has also held positions at Booz & Company ...

Tasplan and Quadrant merger official

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
Tasmanian superannuation funds Tasplan and Quadrant officially merge today in a move that will strengthen Tasplan's position to eventually merge with the RBF Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme. Tasplan chief executive Wayne Davy said in light of the merger ...

FPA, AFA should merge to keep advice strong

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... and industry commentator has asked the two peak associations representing financial advisers to set aside differences and merge into a single body. Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan asked for the Association of Financial Advisers ...

Advice M&A deals boom after years of stagnation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
Mergers and acquisitions of advice practices are happening at an unprecedented level due to excellent market conditions, according to Forte Asset Management director Steven Prendeville. Speaking at a panel session of the FPA Congress titled 'How to ...

Industry fund reappoints NAS as custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
National Australia Bank's Asset Servicing (NAS) business has retained its 15th super fund with Guild Trustee Services agreeing to further its custody relationship for five years. NAS will provide custodial and investment administrative services to the ...

Aspen revises fund merger proposal after Sunsuper bid

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
Aspen Group has issued an explanatory memorandum to shareholders regarding its revised merger proposal with the Aspen Parks Property Fund (APPF). Aspen originally proposed the merger in September, suggesting in its statement to the ASX that this would ...