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ING DIRECT director to join global parent

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... director at ING DIRECT Australia has been recommended to join the supervisory board of the firm's parent global bank, ING Group. ING Group has proposed Ann Sherry be appointed to its supervisory board based on her background in the financial sector and ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

PM Capital global fund returns $50.3m

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
ASX-listed investment company PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund has reported a profit after tax of $50.3 million in its first full financial year result. Operating profit before tax for the year to 30 June 2015 was $71.5 million and earnings per ...

Another marquee hire for Rainmaker

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Rainmaker has expanded its superannuation research capability with a marquee hire. Rainmaker Group, one of Australia's leading diversified financial services and wealth management industry information and publishing groups, has appointed former Perpetual ...

PM Capital global fund boosts income growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... equity manager PM Capital, and it has a 96% net equity exposure. The fund's top five holdings are Lloyds Bank (UK), ING Group (Netherlands), Pfizer (US), Barclays Plc (UK) and Google Inc (US). "The basic framework we employ at PM CAPITAL has not changed," ...

Consumers have no loyalty to financial institutions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
The average Australian customer of each of the major banks deals with more than four institutions across their full range of financial services. This shows there is little loyalty towards any one institution, Roy Morgan has concluded. Of the ten major ...

US manager appoints Breakwater to bring funds to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... following the rebranding of its parent company to Voya Financial. The name change follows Voya Financial's separation from ING Group and initial public offering in May 2013. As of March 31 Voya IM has more than $200 billion in assets under management ...

CommInsure nabs exec from Swiss Re

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Former Swiss Re head of life and health in Australia and New Zealand has been appointed executive general manager at CommInsure, effective April 7, 2014. Helen Troup will be leading CommInsure and joining the wealth management leadership team, Commonwealth ...

ING Direct to target advisers with new model

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
ING Direct is reinforcing its third party distribution team to market the bank's products to financial advisers. The bank has appointed Charles Smith to the newly-created role of key account manager for Wealth, a position that falls under the umbrella ...

NZ Super takes stand on nuclear weapons

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (New Zealand Super) has sold its holdings in a group of nuclear base operators because they have become involved with upgrading or modifying nuclear explosive devices. Publicly listed companies Babcock & Wilcox, Fluor ...