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Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management clocked $1 billion from institutional investors within seven months under its unusual low fixed fee plus performance-fee based payment structure - proof that Frontier's proposed flat dollar fee model has massive insto appeal. ...

AMP Capital hires Barnes as senior portfolio manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
AMP Capital Investors has hired former JPMorganChase global portfolio manager, Greg Barnes, to a new role as senior portfolio manager of Australian equities. Barnes has more than 20 years investment experience, spending eight of those years at JPMorganChase ...

Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
Future Fund board member and former Treasurer, Peter Costello, has been appointed managing director of independent financial and corporate advisory services firm, BKK Partners. Alastair Walton, chair at BKK Partners, said he has known Costello for more ...

Custodians under review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Having spent much of the past 18 months chopping and dicing investment mandates, super funds are now turning their attention on their custody contracts and how their custodian performed during the GFC. Greg O'Sullivan, head of investor services business ...

Man and CS launch managed account service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Man Investments and Credit Suisse have teamed up to launch a managed accounts service to institutional investors worldwide. Under the initiative, Man Investments will be responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of managers. The firm has ...

HSBC takes over local distribution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
HSBC has dropped its local funds distribution arrangement for its Asia and China investment strategies with Challenger this week in favour of distributing the funds itself. Charles Genocchio, head of global investments at HSBC in Australia, said Challenger ...

Maritime Super picks AIA for insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Maritime Super has selected AIA Australia as its group insurer for its 15,000 members following the merger of the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) and Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF) in March this year. Peter Robertson, chief executive at ...

Finance firms must highlight career opps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
Australian financial services employers will need to articulate the career development opportunities that exist by joining and staying with them as local workers start to eye opportunities overseas again. Speaking at the Finsia Financial Services Conference ...

Macq reveals exec pay proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
Macquarie Group capped off the half-year with a string of major acquisitions and more detail on their proposed remuneration structure first flagged in March. In describing their plan to continue their transformation from investment bank to a properly ...

BTIM attracts $1bn in net flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
BT Investment Management (BTIM) gained $1 billion in net fund flows from institutional and wholesale clients for the year to September while its funds under management (FUM) rose slightly to $36 billion. BTIM full year results found while average FUM ...