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Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm, Galleon Management, has been charged for insider trading that allegedly saw him pocket over $27 million in illicit gains. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, which laid ...

Thin line between values and money

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... realistic in the long run. Speaking at an adviser conference last week, financial adviser Rob Musgrave, who runs his own advisory firm, said that his decades of experience in the industry has taught him one thing: financial plans are useless if they ...

Perpetual buys Grosvenor

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... specialist advisory division of Perpetual Private Wealth. The acquisition follows Perpetual's purchase of Sydney-based advisory firm, Financial Pursuit, in April 2009 and of Adelaide-based advisory firm, Argosy in January 2008. "The market is providing ...

FSA fines firm for bad advice

FSA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
UK-based Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined a financial advice firm $27,000 for failing to match client appetite for risk with appropriate investment products. The regulator found the Henry Neil practice advised clients to sell segments of existing ...

Evans and Partners signs on to IRESS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
Evans and Partners, a Melbourne-based investment advisory firm, has gone live with the full range of integrated IRESS products. Together, IRESS and Evans and Partners implemented the change of technology over a period of eight weeks. Within the integrated ...

CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... Columbia in the US, late last week. The deal was struck through a joint venture with real estate investment and advisory firm, First Washington Realty of Bethesda, Maryland. The pension fund signed the dotted line for a 60 per cent stake in the $2.1 ...

Media Super names CIO

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... Super's asset consultant Frontier Investment Consulting. Prior to the appointment, Glass ran his own investment advisory firm FineAnswers. He has held senior roles at asset managers including AMP and BT and was an investment consultant at Sedgwick Noble ...

Charter needs legislative backing: ISN

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Industry Super Network welcomed IFSA's Super Charter but added the association's response needs legislative and regulatory backing. The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) released the Super Charter which outlines a new way to pay ...

FIRSTUNITY sets up Brisbane shop

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
Boutique financial advisory firm FIRSTUNITY Wealth Management has opened a Brisbane office with four financial advisers. Mario Andrado, Terry Blaser, David Lane and John Whelan were appointed executive directors of the firm's Brisbane office. "The opening ...

Macq buys energy advisory firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Macquarie Group buys independent energy advisory firm Tristone Capital Global for $130 million in cash and shares. Tristone Capital Global has offices in Canada, United States, UK and Argentina and provides corporate finance, acquisitions & divestures ...