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AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
AXA Australia's financial planning recruitment drive in the UK and South Africa has slowed with the financial services firm adding only two planners from those countries in the past six months. The firm has promoted the opportunity to join its Australian ...

VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
The drama that unfolded five months ago, when financial planning firm Dixon Advisory helped oust the board of listed investment company van Eyk Three Pillars, culminated this week with the proposal to return capital back to shareholders. The board and ...

QIC taps lifecycle strategies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... risk faced by a member as he or she approaches retirement. QIC has appointed an expert on retirement incomes, professor Michael E Drew, to lead this initiative. Drew is from Griffith University, and is a highly regarded researcher on the provision of ...

Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
Austock Group has appointed former chief executive at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Australia, Paul Masi, as chief executive and managing director of the group. Masi has held a number of investment positions at BZW during the 1990s including head ...

Integrity appoints new portfolio manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Michael Murray reunites with former colleague Paul Fiani when he left AMP to join Fiani's Aussie equities boutique firm, Integrity Investment Management. Michael joins Integrity after nearly nine years with AMP where he was a senior portfolio manager ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... contract was 86 points higher at 4,694 on volume of 14,871 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said the local market was performing well. "It's been excellent with major stocks like the banks up two to ...

Challenger income and index fund boost profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Challenger Financial Services saw net profit after tax (NPAT) rise in the first half of the financial year thanks to strong returns from its life company division and the expansion of its product offering. The firm's normalised NPAT rose nine per cent ...

Investors revamp intl property strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010

SPAA names award winners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Philip Mason Cox, director at Hayes Knight Financial Planning and Shirley Schaefer, treasurer of SPAA's South Australian state chapter, were recognised at last night's SPAA awards. Brisbane-based, Mason Cox, received the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Super fund trustees must make sure they have the option to audit their administration provider's performance, at short notice, to minimise the risk of fraud, according to KPMG. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...