Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2601 - 2610 of 3274 results for "Associate"

Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Towers and Perrin and Watson Wyatt merged to form Towers Watson & Co, a $4.3 billion global employee benefits firm. As a result of the deal, John Haley, chief executive at Watson Wyatt, will serve as the new company's chief executive and Mark Mactas ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management has appointed Adam Bullpitt as associate director of distribution. Bullpitt joins the investment manager after working at Vanguard Investments as a business development manager for three years. During this time he worked ...

Carthona to advise on $500m insto money

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia's agribusiness division in Wagga Wagga as an agribusiness graduate and later was appointed sales associate. Blomfield said the firm is looking to hire more people across a range of roles.

Legalsuper hires investment expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... management experience at several fund managers and deep financial market insights from academic research over six years as Associate Professor of Finance at the Melbourne Business School," said Andrew Proebstl, chief executive of legalsuper. "We see ...

FSP transitions to Oasis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Oasis Asset Management Ltd has transitioned the administration of FSP Portfolio Services' superannuation and IDPS products onto its platform. Oasis managing director Wayne Lowe said the transition was of the "largest transitions ever attempted in our ...

More pain to come for councils

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... those that have derivatives in their portfolios and not just toxic CDOs, warns an investment academic. Jerry Parwada, associate professor of finance at the University of New South Wales and an expert on managed funds and investor behaviour, said councils ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... all infrastructure and private equity transactions in the US. Before his time at Macquarie, Mancini worked as a senior associate in mergers and acquisitions at Shearman and Sterling and, prior to that, as an associate in the corporate and banking division ...

Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Goodbye golden parachutes - APRA has released a consultation package encouraging financial services firms to set up stricter guidelines when deciding executive remuneration. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is recommending its regulated ...

E*TRADE fee hits planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
ANZ owned broking firm E*TRADE changed the pricing on one of its direct share packages - a move which could mean some financial planners will have to pay $1,250 per month for services that were previously free. The pricing changes affect a package the ...