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Netwealth expands distribution

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Platform and financial services provider netwealth Investments has appointed a former national HNW manager at Credit Suisse, Alexander Ordon, as senior distribution manager for the northern region. Besides Ordon, netwealth said it plans to make further ...

NGS Super and Cuesuper to merge

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
NGS Super and Cuesuper plan to merge, creating a $3.5 billion fund with 90,000 members by April next year. Anthony Rodwell-Ball, chief executive of NGS Super, said one of the most important considerations is that both funds have similar membership profiles ...

StatewideSuper appoints JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
In what it calls one of the most important board decisions it will make this year, StatewideSuper has signed JANA for three years, terminating its previous asset consultant, Access Capital Advisers. The new contract began on August 9. The fund expects ...

Drunk futures broker banned

FSA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
A UK oil futures broker has been banned from the local financial services industry for five years and fined $126,000 for manipulating the market by trading huge volumes of oil contracts after a weekend bender. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

BRIC to BIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Investors have gone cold on Russia, following concerns over its fragile economy and negative perceptions around governance and accountability. A survey of private equity firms conducted by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has ...

Allianz pays $500,000 to bushfire sufferers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Allianz Australia has paid out more than $500,000 to Victoria's bushfire victims and expects the total industry insured damage to reach $1 billion. By noon on Thursday Allianz had received 533 claims valued at more than $55 million, more than double ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Thankfully, the Obama mania that gripped the printed and electronic headlines around the world before and during his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States has drowned the negative media spin on the outlook for the domestic economy. ...

Morrison Carr triples adviser base

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Sydney based dealer group Morrison Carr has tripled its number of advisers in the past 12 months despite the downward slide of the local economy. Morrison Carr, which has around $1.5 billion in funds under advice, tripled its number of advisers from ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints currency expert

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Active currency risk manager, The Cambridge Strategy, is to set up an office in Hong Kong and has appointed Sydney-based Alexandra Edstein to help expand the company's operations in the Asia-Pacific region. With more than 20 years of experience in currency ...