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AIA looks to list

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
The American International Assurance Company (AIA) is eyeing listing on the stock exchange after its former parent company, American International Group (AIG) paid off more debt owed to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. AIG announced it had reduced ...

BNY Mellon apologises for pension mistake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
BNY Mellon has apologised to New York City Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) participants after a processing error resulted in the firm pulling funds from their bank accounts. BNY Mellon has returned the funds after it reversed deposits made to participants' ...

Advisers prepare for spike in insurance sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... the leaders when it comes to service levels, according to the reserach. Asteron has been crowned the CoreData 2009 Risk Company of the Year after performing consistently across 11 key areas of service delivery covered in the study. Tower has been awarded ...

Richard Keary to head FRM Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
Hedge fund veteran Richard Keary is to join global fund of hedge funds, Financial Risk Management (FRM) to head of the Australian business. In the new Sydney-based role, Keary will focus on serving institutional investors as well as key distribution ...

Financial Wisdom names its best

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
Wealthwise has won the Financial Wisdom 2009 Practice of the Year for the second year running and Adam Watts was awarded Rising Star of the Year. The West Australian-based financial planning firm won the award based on a number of categories including ...

Equipsuper CEO jumps to Equity Trustees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... Burns was chief executive risk insurances at AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, then general manager corporate affairs of that company. Prior to that, he was managing director of Prudential - Bache Securities Aust and director finance & administration of EFG ...

Nesbitt leaves Perpetual for Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
John Nesbitt, the former head of Private Wealth at Perpetual, has joined Suncorp-Metway as chief financial officer. Nesbitt will be replaced by acting joint heads of Private Wealth, Paul Ryan and Shailendra Singh. "John Nesbitt has a long career in ...

BlackRock BGI merger completed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
BlackRock has completed its merger with Barclays Global Investors, including Barclay's iShares exchange traded funds business. The combined firm will operate under the BlackRock name and the iShares brand will be retained. "Beginning today, we move ...

AMP Cap appoints Japan MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Toshiaki Yamashita as managing director and representative director in Japan after he joined the firm in July in a similar role. Yamashita previously worked at AMP Capital in Japan as acting managing director. He ...

Matrix tags NBG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has secured a preferential mortgage aggregation arrangement with National Brokers Group (NBG). The partnership supports Matrix advisers with mortgage businesses by giving them access to NBG's lending rates as well as a preferential ...