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Westpac breaks up consumer and business banking

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
Westpac has announced a split in the structure of its Australian Business and Consumer Banking (BCB) division. Westpac chief executive officer, David Morgan, said BCB will be split into two new divisions, Consumer Financial Services and Business Financial ...

Asgard welcomes head of corporate super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
Asgard Wealth Solutions has appointed a new head of corporate super to help drive growth in the division. Darren Whereat leaves MLC to take up his new appointment as head of business superannuation with Asgard saying it intends to aggressively target ...

BT partners to cut platform costs

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
BT has launched BT Wrap Advantage, a new initiative which will deliver improved services and efficiencies to advisers and participating fund managers and lowers platform costs for the 75,000 users of the $31 billion platform. BT has worked with 15 participating ...

FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has released a checklist for its members working with clients on switching their superannuation. The checklist focuses on information gathering and comes in response to concern over legislative requirements for ...

AMG appoints ex-GMO exec to head Aussie office

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
The Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has appointed GMO Australia's ex-head of business development as managing director of its new Australian office. Gregor Rennie joins AMG from his role as head of business development with GMO Australia, having previously ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
London based fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
Global benchmarks don't offer much in the way of diversification, according to Aberdeen Asset Management, but a well constructed global equities portfolio can offer investors one of the most effective means of diversification available. Andrew McMenigall ...

T. Rowe Price wins Russell global equities mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
Russell Investment Group has appointed T. Rowe Price International to manage a global equities mandate worth 15 per cent of its Global Opportunities Fund. T. Rowe Price manages mandates for a range of Russell funds globally and in Australia joins existing ...

Dig deeper to find value in hedge funds: Permal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
Hedge funds and their returns should not be a mystery, according to fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Permal Group, even if the hedge fund moniker is now so widely bandied around it is next to useless. "Saying something is a 'hedge fund' without ...

AFS reflects on a good year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
On the back of a year which saw Australian Financial Services (AFS) return to being 100 per cent adviser owned, the dealer group announced it had also achieved 40 per cent growth in profitability and finished the year with 21 additional practices. The ...