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Macquarie ushers new chief

Nicholas Moore, head of Macquarie Capital, is to succeed the group's long time chief executive Allan Moss, who retires this year after almost 15 years at the helm of one of the country's largest homegrown financial services groups. Macquarie Group chairman ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A series of Mercer multi-manager funds have been upgraded from 'recommended' to 'highly recommended' by Lonsec after the Mercer team went back to the drawing board to adopt some of the researcher's feedback. Mercer's Income Plus, Growth Plus, Shares ...

QIC awards $80m long/short mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Queensland-based investment group QIC has granted an $80 million US equity long/short mandate to Californian based, Aletheia Research and Management (Aletheia), following the termination of its contract with Legg Mason. Greg Clarke, senior portfolio ...

BT Financial and Westpac launch all-in-one super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
A month after BT Financial Group chief executive Rob Coombe challenged the industry to find better ways to engage the public on the retirement savings debate, the group and Westpac have introduced sweeping changes to the way BT provides superannuation-related ...

Macq bank splits to grow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
A majority 99.5 per cent of shareholders has approved Macquarie Bank's split into a banking and non-banking group, a move that mirrors a similar step made by investment banks in the US. The banking group will include funds management, real estate, treasury ...

CFS buys music copyright assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
First State Media Group, part of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, has bought one of the largest independently owned and operated record labels in the US ahead of the Australia launch of its first media fund. First State Media Works, a fund ...

To tailor or not to tailor

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
Financial planners need to retain control over portfolio construction models or risk drowning in a sea of disorganisation, according to Darren Wise, managing director of Financial Planning Services Australia. He said some planners' desire to tailor ...

Big improvements in Australian corporate governance: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Despite popular perception that Australian companies lag the world on corporate governance (CG), a new study has found a very high awareness and real willingness by companies to constructively engage. The report, "The changing roles and responsibilities ...

BT appoints new CFO and replaces multi-strategies head

... Earle MacGregor is the new chief financial officer while Robert Swift is the new head of multi-strategies, replacing Al Clark who resigned from the role citing personal reasons. MacGregor was previously chief financial officer at Bluestone Group where ...

Mercer multi-manager is more tax savvy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
Mercer Global Investments raises the stakes in after-tax investing after it shifted $2.5 billion of multi-manager mandates into fund managers that are more tax-conscious. Mercer Global Investments (MGI) has overhauled its Australian share portfolio ...