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Perpetual MD Deverall resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
David Deverall, managing director at Perpetual, has resigned from the firm after seven years at the helm but will remain in his role until either a replacement is found or until March next year. "This has been a personal decision... I believe it is ...

RARE Infra wins $1.4bn in mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
RARE Infrastructure has attracted $1.4 billion in investment mandates in nine months including one from the $67 billion Future Fund. The global listed infrastructure fund manager has gained a number of institutional clients from Australia, Hong Kong ...

Former AllianceBernstein team attracts $275m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Former New Zealand-based AllianceBernstein portfolio managers, now Harbour Asset Management, have attracted $275 million to their Australasian equity strategy since opening their doors in January. AllianceBernstein's review of its New Zealand operations ...

Mercer appoints investment consulting head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
Mercer has named Graeme Mather as market business leader for its Investment Consulting arm in Australia and New Zealand. Mather will succeed Simon Eagleton who is relocating to Mercer's Singapore office soon after being promoted to the role of Asia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore markets during weekend trading, after Wall Street finished firmer and the benchmark copper futures contract closed higher. Gold, silver and oil prices were weaker, however. ...

Westpac upgrades online trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
From $600 worth of free brokerage to mobile trading, Westpac Securities has improved its online investing platform to give customers access to better investment and equity trading opportunities. Customers will be able to use a mobile trading platform ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
How do you say ouch in Spanish? They say money can buy happiness... but only if you have more than your neighbours. Or twisted to reflect the current environment of fiscal restraint -- Aussies still whinging at the absence of big give-away door prizes ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
In the words of Coney Francis, "Who's sorry now?" "I tried to warn you somehow You had your way Who's sorry now..." Shocked and awed. Yes, Virginia, this was how speculators felt when they were forced to cover their short positions after the European ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Hong Kong's regulator moves to ban New York-based Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied ...