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US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
Devon Sharma, president of Standard & Poor's since 2007, has been replaced in the role by chief operating officer of Citibank, Douglas Peterson, three weeks after Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. The McGraw-Hill Companies ...

PFS consultants take equity stakes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... colleagues, all of whom have already contributed an enormous amount to the firm, will be joining the leadership team," said Doug Drysdale and John Newman, directors, PFS. Fitzpatrick, who joined PFS in 2002, provides consultancy to super funds, industry ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... innovations, global investing and shirking away from benchmarks, the audience was told at AllianceBernstein's recent symposium. Doug Peebles, chief investment officer and head of AllianceBernstein's fixed income, discussed how benchmark unaware strategies ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... innovations, global investing and shirking away from benchmarks, the audience was told at yesterday's AllianceBernstein's symposium. Doug Peebles, chief investment officer and head of AllianceBernstein's fixed income, discussed how benchmark unaware ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Deep problems in the superannuation system meant Australians may not have enough money to provide for their retirement despite half-million dollar balances, an industry expert said today. In his keynote speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... Agricultural chemicals supplier, Nufarm, was a rare bright spot, trading 32 cents, or 6.71 per cent, higher at $5.09. Nufarm's boss, Doug Rathbone, sold 4.5 million shares to the company's Japanese major shareholder, Sumitomo, allowing it to increase ...

Northern Trust lands QIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... QIC a flexible and scalable operational platform to support our local and global investment management activities," said Doug McTaggart chief executive, QIC. Paul Cutts, Northern Trust's managing director for Australia and New Zealand, said the decision ...

Countdown to FICAP fundraising

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Executives across the finance industry are set to channel their inner rockstar in the name of charity at the 5th annual 'Who Wants to be a RockStar' event next Thursday at the Loft in Sydney. The fundraising event, hosted by the Financial Industry Community ...

Gap widens for women's super

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... balances widened by 10 per cent year-on-year with the gap being only 35 per cent in the six months to December 2009, said Doug Ross, principal economist for Access Economics. While men have substantially greater account balances across all age ranges ...

Strong returns boost super balances: AMP

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... of $44,013 according to the AMP Retirement Adequacy Index, a review of data from AMP's corporate superannuation customers. Doug Ross, principal economist for Access Economics, said the rise was due to super fund returns. "Good returns do lift balances," ...