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State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

... delivering leading-edge foreign exchange capabilities to meet growing market demand," said Stanley Shelton, executive vice president and head of State Street Global Markets, the company's investment research and trading arm. He said that Currenex's platform ...

Chairperson of Super Complaints Tribunal reappointed

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce announced that Graham McDonald has been reappointed as Chairperson of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. McDonald has been reappointed for two more years, beginning 15 December 2006. Pearce ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

... officer, Leo de Bever. De Bever joined VFMC in October having been recruited from Canada, where he was the senior vice president and risk management expert at the US$100 billion Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Not only is Ontario Teacher's one of the ...

Engineering expert joins AllianceBernstein resources team

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... team from WorldStrides, a US based firm that is the world's largest student travel operator, where he was senior vice president of operations. Prior to that he spent time with Boston Consulting, working in both the US and Australia. Gates, who has a ...

AFA unveils new board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... has unveiled its new board and the recent elections have resulted in a dramatic revamp. Paul Riegelhuth, national vice president, Gerry Porter, Queensland director, and Craig Yates, Tasmanian director, remain on the AFA board, but the rest of the line-up ...

JP Morgan Private Equity Fund Services launches in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... super funds and investment managers operating in the private equity investment space. Albert J Foreman, senior vice president & head of private equity fund services at JPMorgan, said, "JPMorgan PEFS has evolved from the highly experienced finance and ...

The manager matters in private equity: Unigestion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... distinct opportunity sets for Australian investors, but warned that "the manager does matter". Francesco di Valmarana, vice president and investment director of private equity at Unigestion, a privately owned asset management firm that focuses exclusively ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... return strategies add to diversification. It's a complete misnomer to say its high risk." Ryan Pearson, senior vice president of GreenwichVan Alternative Investments, said, "Hedge funds are not necessarily a high risk play, its just a business model. ...

AFA conference raises $45,000 for MS research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... working directly on one of the major MS research programs now being funded," he added. Michael Murphy, AFA outgoing president, said when announcing the partnership at the conference in Sydney this week, "We chose the MSRA as a group to partner with because ...

PIS' Edmondson wins 2006 AFA Adviser of the Year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... manager Zurich, Graham Peatey principal of Encore, Peter Sobels consultant with Plan for Life, Michael Murphy outgoing president of the AFA and Richard Klipin the AFA's chief executive officer. Troy Edmondson, the 2006 winner, is a senior partner with ...