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PIS contracts Zenith for product and research review

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
Professional Investment Services has signed up Zenith Investment Partners to carry out an annual review of its approved product list and internal research process. Zenith will also take part in Professional Investment Services (PIS) investment committee ...

AMP Capital expands Aus Equities team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
AMP Capital is continuing to grow its Australian Fundamental Equities team taking on two new full time staff, as well as launching a new global resources fund. Senior portfolio manager and analyst Ed Rayner joined AMP Capital on secondment from AllianceBernstein ...

Strong half year results for new Challenger boss

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
Challenger's new chief Brian Benari has started off his new role on a positive note with the investment management firm posting strong half yearly results. Benari, who took over from Dominic Stevens on Friday, announced record interim total annuity ...

HUB24 increases FUM by half a billion dollars

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Investment and super platform HUB24 has secured four new clients, bringing in over half a billion dollars in funds under management for the Investorfirst owned subsidiary. Advisers at DFS Solutions, Equiti Private Wealth, Oxbrey Financial Group and ...

Zurich reveals internal shake-up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Zurich Australia has announced a shake-up to its life insurance and investment business which sees a key senior management position made redundant. Under the restructure, the position of executive general manager, investments will no longer exist, a ...

Stonger Super second tranche amendments released

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
The government has released amendments to the second tranche of the Stronger Super legislation. This includes expanding the covenants for registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees, applying new trustee duties to trustees of an RSE that offers ...

BlackRock chief named QIC's new boss

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Wholesale funds manager QIC has appointed BlackRock head and managing director Damien Frawley as chief executive. Frawley takes over from Doug McTaggart who announced last year he would be stepping down in mid-2012. At BlackRock, Frawley was responsible ...

Orchard changes name to re-brand

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Property funds manager Orchard Capital Investment has changed its name to Arena Investment Management. Arena was bought by the real estate arm of Morgan Stanley in a deal that was finalised last month, which also saw the fund manager recapitlised to ...

Westpac posts $1.4 billion profit to December 31

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
Westpac made quarterly cash earnings of around $1.5 billion to the end of December, with after tax profits of $1.4 billion for the same period. The unaudited results come just two weeks after the group announced it would be shedding up to 560 jobs as ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
ASIC is set to clamp down on misleading advertisments for financial products and services as part of its continued shake up of the financial services system. New guidelines released by ASIC commissioner Peter Kell emphasised the need for promoters to ...