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Snowball buys Yarra Financial

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
Snowball Group has acquired Yarra Financial Group, which runs a $130 million funds under advice (FUA) financial planning practice and a separate accounting business. The deal means Yarra Financial Group's (Yarra) accounting and financial planning businesses ...

Lazard appoints Asia MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
Lazard Asset Management has appointed Henry Choon as managing director in business development and marketing for Asia, excluding Japan. Choon has more than 15 years experience in Asian funds management and prior to this appointment worked at Lehman ...

Quattro to distribute HK giant's products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
Quattro Asset Management has come to an arrangement with Hong Kong non-bank financial services juggernaut, Sun Hung Kai Financial to distribute the firm's products to Australian investors. Sun Hung Kai Financial is a Quattro Asset Management stakeholder ...

Super Concepts names GM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
ING Australia has promoted Paul May to general manager of its self managed super fund business, Super Concepts. May has worked at Super Concepts for more than six years, most recently as national operations manager. Prior to working at Super Concepts ...

QBE drops PI and D&O insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
QBE Insurance Australia will no longer provide professional indemnity (PI) and directors and officers (D&O) insurance to financial planners and stockbrokers from June onwards following an internal review. In January, the Corporations Act was amended ...

Saropa launches finistic

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Australian technology firm Saropa has developed a general insurance platform, finistic, which allows financial advisers to provide insurance to clients by referring them to a website. Launched last month, clients can access finistic at no cost, via ...

First stop baby boomers, next stop Gen-Y

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
The way to the baby boomers' wallets is through their Gen-Y kids, said Bernard Salt, a leading commentator on consumer, cultural and demographic trends. "Generation Y will inherit baby boomer wealth. The motherload is not going to happen for another ...

Aon hires Russell for FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Aon Consulting Australia has appointed multi-manager specialist Russell Investment Group to manage the firm's master trust's $1.6 billion in assets and develop a range of specialist investment options. Aon Consulting (Aon) Master Trust investment options ...

S&P expands research team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has appointed Leanne Fook as a fund ratings generalist to the firm's fund research team. Previously, Fook worked as a research analyst at Australian Wealth Management (AWM) for three years, reviewing investments across ...

Carbon transport the next big thing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors looking for a radical way to grow their savings should watch out for new industries that will develop out of the storage and transportation of carbon dioxide, as the move towards using clean coal power stations continue to gain traction. "On ...