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St George chief moves to Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... under her helm and is now at over 80 per cent according to a Roy Morgan survey. Kelly began her banking career in South Africa working at Nedcor Bank as general manager in a number of positions including human resources and personal banking. She later ...

PE to re-build South Africa

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
South Africa looks set to receive a helping hand from successful stockbroker Christopher Gardner, the inspiration behind the Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness, who has plans to launch a private equity fund to focus on making South Africa an ...

IRESS snaps up Spotlight

... Fresh from its recent acquisitions of PlanTech and VisiPlan, IRESS Market Technology is making its presence felt in South Africa with the acquisition of planning software provider Spotlight Interactive for $6.4 million. The South African software business ...

Advisers need to think small for big profits

... "Advice is incredibly personal - it's about the people," he said. While not an advisory company, Boggs pointed to South Africa's largest privately owned fund management company, Allan Gray, as an example, saying it had gone from nothing to 25 per cent ...

Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

... opportunities lie, Malvey said that Lehman's recommended global asset allocation is overweight in countries such as South Africa, Mexico and parts of Eastern Europe. "You would have noticed that we have diversified away from the G4...we're also looking ...

Going nuts over macadamias

... phased out over the next five years. One catch, however, is increased competition from low-cost producers such as South Africa, the researcher said. Michelle Baltazar

Macq making progress on restructure

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... equity products business." It was applying for private banking and funds management licenses in Singapore and also in South Africa. In the past 12 months Macquarie has started selling its equity and hedge fund products in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia ...

TOWER adds two to its board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... and a Master of Laws with first class honours from Cambridge University. He has worked as a financial journalist in South Africa, a lecturer of law at Melbourne University and a partner at Baker & McKenzie. He is non-executive chairman of Axiom Energy ...

MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... bolster the implemented consulting team. David Klug joins MLC from his most recent posting with Metropolitan Life in South Africa where he headed up the corporate consulting team. Klug has also spent time with Anglo American Corporation and the South ...

Investec measures value of advice

Investec Private Advisers is working on an ambitious plan to give clients automated reports that quantify how much Investec's financial advice adds, or subtracts, to the overall investment returns of their clients. The group's senior executive Robert ...