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Employers divided on internal social media effectiveness

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
While more than 50% of employers are using social media to communicate and build community with their employees, there is little consensus as to which tools are most effective. According to a flash survey by global professional services company Towers ...

nabinvest expands institutional team

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
nabInvest has expanded its institutional team with the appointment of former Challenger institutional business manager Michael Gaffney to the role of investment specialist. Prior to taking on this role Gaffney was the institutional business manager ...

NZ Super Fund inks US$275m UK mandate deal

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund) has made its second investment in natural catastrophe reinsurance, appointing London-based Leadenhall Capital Partners to manage a US$275 million mandate. The new mandate is focused on natural catastrophe ...

Westpac appoints head of Debt Capital Markets

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
Former ANZ head of the Financial Institutions Group, Australia, John Chauvel has resurfaced at Westpac Institutional Bank (Westpac) as managing director and head of Debt Capital Markets. He will report to managing director and Head of Debt Markets Tony ...

Former boutique firm analyst pleads guilty to insider trading

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
A former analyst with boutique finance firm Lincoln Crowne & Company (LCC) has pleaded guilty to an insider trading charge following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation. The charge against Jonathan Jin Yi Ang, 25 ...

Sunsuper adds to investment committee

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Industry fund Sunsuper has appointed financial services industry veteran Justine Hickey to its investment committee. In April Hickey resigned from her position as director at Australian Ethical Investment (AEI). She had been the longest serving board ...

Adviser "enshrinement" bill passes through lower house

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
The House of Representatives has passed the Corporations Amendment (Simple Corporate Bonds and Other Measures) Bill 2013 with amendments to enshrine the terms 'financial adviser' and 'financial planner' in law. Currently under the C orporations Act ...

New chairman appointed at BOQ

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Current Bank of Queensland director Roger Davis will take over the role of chairman, after the retirement of incumbent Neil Summerson. Summerson announced at the annual general meeting in December 2012 that he intended to step aside in 2013. He will ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Profits for Japanese companies are set to get higher despite the country already being in a bull market said Kerr Neilson, chief executive and founder of Platinum Asset Management. In an interview with Financial Standard, Neilson said the fund manager ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Platinum Asset Management's (Platinum) chief executive Kerr Neilson is confident that the fund will be able to turn around a period of underperformance in its flagship International Fund, saying that the current state of the market has turned to favour ...