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Equity Trustees makes aged care bid

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
Equity Trustees is set increase its capacity to provide post-retirement solutions with the acquisition of two aged care services businesses from Paragon Care. The sale of Lifetime Planning and Tender Living Care is due to be completed by the end of ...

Treasury Group appoints CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
Treasury Group (TRG) has announced Andrew McGill as the successor to Mark Burgess as chief executive officer. The appointment is effective from 12 July 2011. "We conducted an extensive local and international search for the right candidate and we are ...

Coalition adopts ALP super clearing house model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Coalition has adopted the ALP's superannuation clearing house policy as their preferred way to simplify contribution payments for small businesses. Under the morphed policy, the Coalition has proposed small business employers send superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Australian market again has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall St and European markets ending lower while oil bounced higher. Precious metals fell, and base metals were mixed. At 0719 AEST on the ASX 24, the June ...

Alpha adds BlackRock and QIC strategies

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
Alpha Fund Managers has invested in BlackRock's Australian equitised long short strategy, adding the manager to its Australian blue chip fund. Boutique multi-manager Alpha has bought into the long short strategy, which outperformed the S&P/ASX200 index ...

AMP Capital appoints Global Head of Infrastructure

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
AMP Capital Investors has announced the appointment of Scott Davies as AMP Capital's new global head of infrastructure, following the retirement of Phil Garling from full-time executive roles. Mr Davies has over 20 years financial services experience ...

New talent celebrated with AFA award

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has opened nominations for its 2011 AFA Rising Star of the Year Award. The AFA's Rising star of the Year Award (Award) is designed to celebrate the talented newcomers in the world of financial advice. Established ...

AustralianSuper names Fraser's replacement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
AustralianSuper has appointed Tim Poole to replace recently-retired Bernie Fraser as chair of the super funds investment committee. Poole has been a member of the super fund juggernaut's investment committee since 2007 and will drive AustralianSuper's ...

Credit Suisse appoints Australian head

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Credit Suisse has appointed a new head of private banking for Australia as it looks to increase collaboration with its investment banking and asset management divisions. Edward Jewell-Tait will join Credit Suisse as managing director and head of private ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
UniSuper is looking to increase member returns by appointing GBST to provide after-tax benchmarking solutions to assess fund manager performance. The $28 billion fund said that the Cooper review had made the case for super funds to implement after-tax ...