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Perpetual Private Wealth boosts FUA to $8.5bn

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Perpetual caps the year with its third acquisition in private wealth, which takes the division's total funds under advice (FUA) to $8.5 billion. This week Perpetual bought Melbourne-based advisory firm Fordham Group for $35 million, a deal that is expected ...

BT Financial names new head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
BT Financial Group chief executive Rob Coombe is taking a new post within Westpac and will be replaced by former Westpac NZ chief Brad Cooper at the helm. Westpac chief Gail Kelly has announced three internal appointments to her executive team namely ...

Add $5,000 to your super: MTAA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Some funds offer holidays, others hand out Myer vouchers - but MTAA Super is giving one member the chance to boost their savings by $5,000 if they rollover their super into the industry fund. MTAA Super, the not-for-profit fund for the automotive industry ...

ESI Super pumps up insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
The $2.7 billion ESI Super has partnered with Australian Income Protection (AIP) and MLC to offer improved insurance to its 21,000 members. ESI Super is encouraging its new and existing members to take out new income protection cover, provided by AIP ...

Solaris wins CFS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management has been awarded a mandate by Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The mandate takes Solaris's funds under management to $3.4 billion since inception in January 2008. Denis Donohue, managing ...

WA rep banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
ASIC has permanently banned Jason William Cox, of St James, Western Australia, from providing financial services. The banning follows Cox being sentenced in January this year to two years and four months jail with parole, for 24 counts of fraud. It ...

ASIC outlines credit agency requirements

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Local credit rating agencies must hold an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence, properly manage conflicts of interest that arise and ensure employees are adequately trained from January next year following regulatory changes. The Australian Securities ...

AXA IM appoints head of Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of Asia Pacific and plans to expand its sales team in the region. It is understood Leoni replaces Anthony Fasso, former chief executive of AXA Rosenberg Asia Pacific and AXA IM ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices lower and commodities prices weaker. At 0813 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 33 points ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
Flat. This was how Wall Street ended while we were sleeping after climbing non-stop for six straight days. With the investment environment still fluid, investors decided last night to exchange some of their paper profits on equities and commodities ...