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Shareholders remove van Eyk Three Pillars board

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Dixon advisory group director Alan Dixon said the outcome of today's van Eyk Three Pillars EGM, which saw majority of shareholders vote the current VTP board out, is a triumph for the "small" shareholders. Nearly 60 million of the 80 million-plus votes ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... of an upside surprise. Surprise! Heeeeere's........Meredith. Ms. Meredith Whitney, founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, gave Wall Street what they wanted. She issued a "buy" recommendation on Goldman Sachs one day - yes one day - before GS releases ...

Perpetual buys Financial Pursuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Perpetual expands its private wealth arm when it bought Financial Pursuit, a Sydney-based planning firm with $200 million of funds under advice (FUA). The acquisition increases Perpetual Private Wealth's total funds under advice by three per cent to ...

Rising above the average: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Financial services and advisory group Fiducian trailed behind some of its peers during the years of easy money but when the crunch came, it's the group's very same prudent strategy that saved the day. The numbers show a part of the story. The group ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... has a "recommended" rating from Aegis Equities Research. Sulieman Ravell, managing director of Wealth Focus, the advisory group behind Funds Focus, said there are good reasons why they are drawing investor attention to SuperAlphaFund 1 and the managed ...

Japan's pensions turn to alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... equity, real estate and infrastructure. Hidenori Suzuki, JPMorgan Asset Management Japan head of strategic investment advisory group, said the US sub prime crisis and a revision in accounting standards is forcing Japanese pension funds to develop stricter ...

PIS creates NZ advice giant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... Zealand (PIS NZ) and Newpark Financial Services are expected to merge and create New Zealand's largest financial advisory group with more than 250 advisers and 130 accounting firms. Robbie Bennetts, PIS chief executive, said the merger would create critical ...

Negline joins Rainmaker

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Tony Negline has joined the Rainmaker Group, publisher of Financial Standard, as Technical Services Editor, heading the company's technical services library and CPD services for financial planners. In the newly created role, he will be the Editor of ...

ING snaps up Zurich advisory group

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has sold its 141-strong advice and insurance broker advisory group Financial Lifestyle Solutions (FLS) to ING-owned Millennium3 Financial Services. Millennium3 is one of Australia's largest financial services ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... launching a new terror-free index. FTSE has teamed up with terror-free investment screening house Conflict Securities Advisory Group to launch the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free Index Series. The index is based on the FTSE Global Equity Index Series and will ...