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CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... will approach a post-awards environment, including the use of advisers and targeting business bank customers. The fund management and super arm of banking giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has also added its voice to the debate over whether ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
UCA Fund Management will cease to invest directly in companies involved the extraction, refinement and exportation of thermal coal and unconventional oil and gas. The ethical fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will ...

Challenger reports record annuities sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... reached $45 billion, representing a 27% growth over the 12 month period, and making Challenger the 7th largest fund management business in Australian, up from 9th at the end of the last financial year. Fidante Partners also announce the formation of ...

Industry groups self-interest caused FoFA problems

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... Tynan said that with a pool of retirement savings of more than $1.6 trillion in assets and the fourth largest fund management industry in the world, "there's a lot at stake." "It's there for all to see why all the special interest groups comprising institutions ...

NAB makes key Asset Servicing appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... Management and Insurance for New South Wales and will be responsible for the portfolio of insurance clients and fund management in the region. Jamour was previously with BNP Paribas, Westpac and AMP before joining NAB five years ago. He has more than ...

K2 Advisors exec resurfaces at QIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... skills to local clients. Prior to that he was Australian and Asian head of APT. He also worked in London for the fund management arm of Swiss private bank, Sarasin, as the in-house quantitative manager. A QIC spokesperson said: "Craig's extensive expertise ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... management of the assets, and Tim is part of that skilling up. "We've now got a nice mix of people who've worked in fund management, some guys from engineering, some people who've worked on the research side, and a couple of analysts who've worked on ...

Grant Samuel expands to Brisbane

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Grant Samuel Fund Management (GSFM) has opened an office in Brisbane after reporting a doubling in business demand over the past 12 months. The Brisbane office will be headed up by Steven Taylor, a former Queensland state manager at Challenger Group. ...

CIO exit forces Bedlam closure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... London-based fund manager's website, McCallum left "without warning" to take up a role in Singapore with Fullerton Fund Management. This led to an automatic review both by large investors and one consulting firm, whose clients account for over 40% of ...

Speakers confirmed for Family Office Forum

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... provide an overview of Asian Family office issues. Henry Lee is a respected figure in the advisory, investment and fund management field with over 20 years' experience in Asia and the US. "These sorts of insights from truly global thought leaders should ...