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Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
The number of fund managers switching investment houses doubled in the last six months, S&P reported. Standard & Poor's found 15 senior portfolio management professionals, representing 320 years of collective experience, left their firms in the first ...

BRW Rich 200 lists fin services best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers when placing client money. BRW estimates Neilson's wealth at $2.3 billion. Further down the ladder, with an estimated wealth ...

AdminPARTNERS improves back office, adds staff

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... AdminPARTNERS has around 100,000 members using the AdminPARTNERS Superannuation Solution (MySuperSolution) through several fund managers and administrators.

Changing of the guard at Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian fund managers looking to do business with Asian sovereign fund Temasek will need to woo new leaders at the firm namely the new president and the new head of portfolio management announced last week. Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara has been appointed ...

Local jobseekers enjoy strong executive search market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Banks, fund managers and investment houses risk losing key staff to rival firms and new entrants in the coming months after a new report found the financial services sector is leading the rebound in executive searches and that two in five executives ...

Ausmaq goes live on SWIFT tech

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... now through Ausmaq, its first platform representative, said Candy. They are also now connected to SWIFT-enabled fund managers including BlackRock Asset Management Australia and Vanguard Investments Australia. "It provides increased efficiency and better ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
GESB has appointed former Citigroup executive Kate Budiselik and ex-Coronation Fund Managers portfolio manager Edwin Schultz as investment strategists. Budiselik and Schultz will be part of the investment team managing WA-based GESB's $10.4 billion ...

Orion still well regarded despite downgrade: CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... firm. "Our understanding is that they haven't changed their fundamental view on us at all. But against the other fund managers they compared us to, they've changed that view in a relative sense," he said. "We've been successfully managing according to ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
A coalition of international fund managers, pension funds and super funds representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies ...

AMP Asian strategy gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... attracting more than $700 million from Japanese retail investors last year and becoming one of the top 10 biggest fund managers in the country. Speaking at the AMP annual general meeting, Craig Dunn, chief executive at the firm, said it is concentrating ...