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Pan-Tribal appoints head of business operations

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
Pan-Tribal Asset Management has appointed a new head of business operations and strategic planning. Prior to Pan-Tribal, Sarah Angliss was a senior investment analyst at UniSuper. She has also held roles at UBS Global Asset Management and Colonial First ...

IOOF boosts interim profit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
IOOF has announced its interim results for 2016, demonstrating an underlying net profit boost of 18% to $95.4 million. IOOF's statement cited some of the drivers of this as being the successful integration of Shadforth, which resulted in $11 million ...

PIMCO appoints new MD

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
PIMCO has appointed a managing director and head of client analytics. Jamil Baz joins PIMCO from Man GLG Partners, where he was a senior managing director and chief investment strategist. He previously worked at PIMCO in 2007 as a portfolio manager. ...

Lack of scaleability curbs hedge fund appeal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
Hedge funds are too nuanced to be scaled and investors shouldn't try to assemble them into portfolios, said a leading alternatives investment manager. "Investing in a hedge fund is a collectors' business. You're not building a portfolio but a collection ...

Shaw and Partners appoints three senior advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Shaw and Partners has appointed three new senior advisers, including another two Macquarie veterans. Alasdair Burns and Greg Sadler have joined Shaw and Partners from Macquarie Private Wealth and Macquarie Equities respectively; both had been working ...

Synchron announces LIF tech and referral arrangements

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Following on from its partnership with AIA to create a Life Insurance Framework-friendly insurance product, Synchron has announced two new LIF support initiatives. The first is SyncAdvsr, a software package designed to automatically produce fee disclosure ...

Australian pension market still global leader

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Australia is not only one of the biggest pension markets in the world, it is among the fastest growing. Willis Towers Watson has just released its 2016 Global Pension Assets Study and it reveals that Australia's US$1.5 trillion pension asset pool is ...

Suncorp appoints new C-suite for restructured business

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Suncorp has consolidated its separate business channels and appointed nine senior executives to lead the restructured company. The three combined operating business units are now banking and wealth, insurance Australia and insurance New Zealand. This ...

ASIC cracks down on social media SMSF ads

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
ASIC has raised concerns about three companies advertising self-managed super fund services on social media. Skybridge Portfolios was using its Facebook page to advertise the benefits of SMSFs, including statements such as: "Get yourself a SMSF for ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... for dividends so a global approach can be especially beneficial," Henderson Global Investors head of global equity income Alex Crooke said. The US was the engine of global income growth, as it pays two fifths of the world's dividends and rapidly increased ...