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Local S&P veteran heads to global stage

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... skills, following a career at Credit Suisse and more recently as head of her own change management and operational risk consultancy for financial services firms. They have joined with a remit to integrate the currently separate European and Australian ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... diametrically opposed asset managers with more hedge funds merging with long-only funds to slash operational costs, predicts consultancy firm Accenture. Mark Halverson, global executive partner, wealth & asset management, at Accenture Capital Markets ...

Inalytics to compare transition managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Research consultancy group Inalytics is set to build a giant database of transition events that will help super funds compare transition managers based on fees - a comparison tool that has caught the attention of major asset consultants. Inalytics scored ...

Local funds hold firm on US equities

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... despite the Dow Jones Index slipping below 7,000, its lowest level in more than a decade. Melbourne based investment consultancy, JANA Investment Advisers head of investment outcomes, Ken Marshman, said the firm had not received any phone calls, nor ...

QSuper appoints investment committee

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... this committee. He has an extensive career in the financial services sector, specialising in actuarial and management consultancy and is the founder and managing director of Rice Warner Actuaries. Ian Macoun is the second member to be appointed to the ...

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Carthona Agriculture, a green investment consultancy for institutional investors, is incorporating the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment into its services. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona, said applying these principles ...

SuperCentral hires Negline

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... managed super fund (SMSF) trust deed update service. Negline previously worked at ING Australia and opened his own consultancy business in 2001. He will promote SuperCentral service to financial planners and dealer groups that are developing their SMSF ...

Dealer group demand spurs CLS growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... dealership and licensee demand to make their practices more efficient and profitable has prompted the two month old consultancy business, Class Leading Solutions (CLS) to expand their business nationwide. Kurt Smyth, CLS executive manager, said the firm ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principle of the Lateral Economics consultancy, has written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy, have written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees as take-home ...