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Martin quits OFG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
John McBain has been appointed chief executive of the Over Fifty Group (OFG) following the resignation of Christopher Martin. Appointed director at OFG in 1996, McBain was founder and director of Century Funds Management before OFG purchased it. McBain ...

Power up on low emission stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
Fundamentally sound low-emission utility stocks represent good value following stock market corrections, according to Bakers Investment Group. Jeremy Baker, joint-managing director at Bakers Investment Group, said the company's AltexRed Index, which ...

ASSET switches to Integrity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ASSET Super has granted a $75 million Australian equities mandate to Integrity Investment Management, a deal that ends the super fund's four-year relationship with Concord Capital. "Concord weren't providing the performance the fund required. Investments ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
Credit Suisse Asset Management has expanded its multi-boutique platform by partnering with international equities manager Julius Baer Investment Management (JBIM). The first JBIM product is expected to be available to Credit Suisse clients by the second ...

Western Asset repositions for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... yield, we still have some allocation to emerging markets but we're a little bit cautious because of the scale of gains," Michael Zelouf, director at Western Asset Management London (Western Asset), said. Western Asset's Global Multi Sector strategy returned ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...

Byrne departs UniSuper

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
After seven years as UniSuper's chief executive, Ann Byrne is set to leave her role in March. As chief executive, Byrne, merged SSAU and TESS into a single entity under UniSuper, positioned the fund to deliver higher education and research, created ...

Equity Trustees super six times bigger

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Equity Trustees Limited has increased its superannuation business by $542 million over a four-year period thanks to the cumulative power of minor acquisitions. "When the [superannuation business] was acquired in 2003 it was around $108 million now its ...

Goodall joins Plan for Life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Former ANZ Financial Planning general manager, Mike Goodall has been appointed as a risk consultant at Plan For Life (PFL). According to Simon Solomon, managing director at Plan For Life, Goodall will facilitate implement PFL's Risk Online Quotation ...

Client service before compliance: Bradley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
The financial services industry should stop complaining about the burden of compliance and realign its practices with investor interests or risk further regulation, according to Graham Bradley, chairman of HSBC Bank Australia. "Increased compliance ...