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Henderson Maxwell moves to managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Financial planner Sam Henderson discovered a decision he made 12 months ago to set up a managed accounts service for clients is paying off. Speaking at Financial Standard's managed accounts seminar early this month, Henderson said that using managed ...

Sovereign adds two principals

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
Sovereign Investment Research has appointed John Peterson and Helen Murdoch as principals. Peterson previously worked at the Reserve Bank between 1979 and 1983 and then joined Bankers Trust Australia. During his time at Bankers Trust Australia he worked ...

Video me up, Scottie

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
It is not quite as revolutionary as teleporting but advances in video conferencing has now made it possible for fund managers to hold life-like video meetings, a major leap from the days of delayed broadcast, blurry video images and dropped-out calls. ...

Ipac appoints chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
AXA Australia Asia Pacific subsidiary, ipac, has appointed Neil Swindells as chief executive. Swindells' appointment follows the firm's chief executive and AXA head of advice, Peeyush Gupta stepping down next month. Swindells was previously an AXA senior ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market opened higher after gains from the financials following a positive lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1010 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 27.7 points higher at 3482.6, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 23.7 points ...

Higher fees, more cover: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
One of the country's largest super funds, AustralianSuper, is raising its admin fees by 50 per cent and is broadening its insurance cover, all in a bid to improve member services. All of the fund's members' accounts are now being charged $1.50 per week ...

Acacia separates from Linear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Acacia Private Wealth has cut its licensing ties with Linear Financial Services to maintain its independent boutique structure. According to Elsa Cocco, Acacia Wealth adviser operations manager, said Acacia Private Wealth had gained its own license ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
The recently combined wealth unit of National Australia Bank is on the hunt for new boutique fund managers and top quality advisers following last week's merger announcement of MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest. Steve Tucker, the new head of the ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...

Aladdin combines FI and eq

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The next decade will see a consolidation of investment management information systems, leading to toolsets capable of dealing with all asset classes, a prime example of which is BlackRock's Aladdin fixed interest platform. Nigel Allfrey, managing director ...