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Great Southern shrinks as sales drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... delays - but the bottom line remains the same, which is a need to cut costs across all areas of the fund manager's operations for the business to remain buoyant. Ikin said jobs will be axed in the firm's sales and marketing department, and rental, facility ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... strategies - to both the insto and retail market. Cuddy and East, principals of the new arm, will oversee the funds' operations. Looking forward, Alison Watkins, Bennelong Group chief executive is confident about the success of Bennelong Australian Equity ...

Carlyle Asia LFG recruits ANZ exec

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
One of the largest private equity firms in the world strengthens its operations in Australia when it appointed senior ANZ executive David Balint as director of Carlyle Asia Leveraged Finance Group. Based in Sydney, Balint will manage the team's investment ...

Aviva outsources to S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... its investment fund research to Standard & Poor's Fund Services. Previously Aviva Research managed all its research operations internally. As a result of the deal, Aviva will have access to the research and rating firm's fund research and integrated ...

ING taps Ukraine insurance market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... insurance and retirement services," he said "I am confident that by utilizing our experience in setting up successful operations in other countries in central and eastern Europe we will able to make a swift and efficient start." The global Dutch financial ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... earned only 4.6 per cent, Australian investors earned three-times that at almost 15 per cent. Scale in the investment operations of the Swedish pension system are also achieved through the scheme managing two-thirds of its $40 billion in assets internally. ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... mood has changed post subprime as the LPT dream run turned to nightmare. With LPT leverage, overvaluation and stapled operations muddying returns, direct property suddenly became the safer and better choice. To illustrate, Hartley said Sunsuper sold ...

Bell Financial buys Southern Cross Equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Bell, BFG executive chair, said the deal was an opportunity for each firm to leverage each other's expertise and expand operations. "Southern Cross is a highly profitable business with an unaudited actual net profit for financial year 2008 of approximately ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... BT Financial Group, Australia's largest wealth management firms, reduce water consumption associated with the firm's operations, support market-based water rights trading systems and commit to understanding water-related risks and opportunities in their ...

Pentafin beefs up IT team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Pentafin has appointed US expat Joe Vetto and ex-Challenger operations support manager Karen Chim to its IT team. Joe Vetto, the former co-founder and vice-president of product development for Seattle-based X6 Technologies which is now Minecode, has ...