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Macquarie exec joins DNR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Ex-Macquarie Bank executive director Matt Long has joined boutique asset manager Dalton Nicol Reid as head of strategic development. Long, who started with Dalton Nicol Reid in the newly created role will be broadening the group's distribution platform ...

BlackRock SMA tops $500m

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
BlackRock's Customised Portfolio Service has reached $500 million in FUA and launched 84 investment models across 34 product disclosure statements in under five years in operation. Scott Phillips, BlackRock's director and head of retail at BlackRock ...

Telstra Super signs healthcare deal for members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The $10 billion Telstra Super has teamed up with health fund HCF to offer members discounted health insurance. According to a press statement, Telstra Super members and their immediate families can access HCF's full range of hospital and extras cover ...

GPT fund buys stake in Sydney tower

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The GPT Wholesale Office fund has bought a 50 per cent interest in an office building from Grocon Developments. Martin Ritchie, fund manager at GPT Group, said the fund had pre-bought the building for $333 million, which funded the construction on a ...

RBS adds to Aus markets team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed John Cummins as co-head of markets for Australia as the firm ramps up its local markets business. Cummins previously worked as head of corporate risk solutions at RBS in Hong Kong. In this role, he will ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's financial statements and the standard of governance by management to prepare those financials. The measurement was ...

Matrix adds regional practice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Matrix Planning Solutions has recruited regional practice A&B Financial Planning into its dealer group. Located in Temora, in regional NSW, A&B Financial Planning joined Matrix on 22 March 2010. The principal financial planner in the practice is Andrew ...

Perpetual tops S&P review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Perpetual has become the only manager to receive a five-star rating in S&P Fund Services' latest review of the Australian Equities - Large Cap sector-specific peer group. The peer group includes four investment strategies offered by four managers. S&P ...

SG Hiscock hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
SG Hiscock & Company has appointed Rob Tucker as portfolio manager in its concentrated equity investment team. Tucker joins Robert Hook and Tim Wood and takes the number of executives working at SGH to 14. The team manages more than $1.6 billion in ...

NAB a step closer to buying AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
National Australia Bank has reached binding terms with French company AXA and AXA Asia Pacific to buy the firms' Australian and New Zealand businesses for $4.6 billion. According to a press statement released yesterday, the deal includes a proposal ...