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Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
Future Fund board member and former Treasurer, Peter Costello, has been appointed managing director of independent financial and corporate advisory services firm, BKK Partners. Alastair Walton, chair at BKK Partners, said he has known Costello for more ...

Custodians under review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Having spent much of the past 18 months chopping and dicing investment mandates, super funds are now turning their attention on their custody contracts and how their custodian performed during the GFC. Greg O'Sullivan, head of investor services business ...

AMP appoints international MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... retail unit trust business, local asset management subsidiaries and joint ventures in Asia. Fasso will take over from Michael Clarke, who has set a strong foundation for the business internationally over the last five years and will become a strategic ...

Man and CS launch managed account service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Man Investments and Credit Suisse have teamed up to launch a managed accounts service to institutional investors worldwide. Under the initiative, Man Investments will be responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of managers. The firm has ...

HSBC takes over local distribution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
HSBC has dropped its local funds distribution arrangement for its Asia and China investment strategies with Challenger this week in favour of distributing the funds itself. Charles Genocchio, head of global investments at HSBC in Australia, said Challenger ...

Maritime Super picks AIA for insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Maritime Super has selected AIA Australia as its group insurer for its 15,000 members following the merger of the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) and Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF) in March this year. Peter Robertson, chief executive at ...

ASIC takes MFS Group to court

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... manager caused the Premium Income Fund to suffer a $147.5 million loss. As a result, the regulator is taking action against Michael King, former chief executive and director at MFS Group and Craig White, deputy chief executive and director of MFS Group ...

CFS and Brookfield scoop property awards

PIR RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... today's market," said Darren Steinberg, head of property at Colonial First State Global Asset Management in a statement. Michael Gorman, CFX fund manager said the trust's focus on Australian shopping centres has meant that it has been able to deliver ...

Finance firms must highlight career opps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
Australian financial services employers will need to articulate the career development opportunities that exist by joining and staying with them as local workers start to eye opportunities overseas again. Speaking at the Finsia Financial Services Conference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... contract gained 71 points to 4632, on a volume of 23,272 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist, Michael Heffernan said the market was ebbing and flowing upwards in a beautiful fashion. "All guns are blazing for a right royal ...