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Betashares launches three new ETFs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
A new agriculture ETF has been launched on the Australian stock exchange today by specialist ETF provider BetaShares. Known as QAG, the new exchange traded fund will track the performance of the S&P GSCI Agriculture Enhanced Select Index, which is made ...

Qantas Super names new chief exec

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
Former JP Morgan Chase executive, Jane Perry will take the reins as chief executive of Qantas Super next February. Perry had been with JP Morgan Chase since 2008, most recently in the role of chief executive officer, treasury and securities services ...

FOFA implementation time vital: ASFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
ASFA is calling for a 12 month "transition period" from the proposed FOFA start date next winter to give the industry time to properly implement the changes. In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC), the Association of Superannuation ...

Melbourne director gets jail sentence

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
A former Melbourne company director has been sentenced to a total of three years and two months behind bars on charges which include insolvent trading and theft. Anula Kumari Kaye, 59, of Toorak, former director of International Consulting Group (ICG) ...

Count chief replaced by CBA exec

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
Count Financial chief Andrew Gale has stood down from the wealth management firm and been replaced by Commonwealth Bank senior executive David Lane. It's after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gave CBA's takeover of Count the ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Standard & Poor's has downgraded the ratings of major US banks, including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, by one notch. The ratings agency said it reviewed its ratings on 37 of the world's largest ...

Ventura reduces wholesale funds cost

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Ventura Investment Management has reduced the price for its wholesale funds by up to 25%, following the reappointment of Russell Investments as the funds' investment manager. The move follows feedback from advisers who maintained clients had become ...

ING senior research analyst moves to Altius

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Former ING Investment Management senior research analyst Vanessa Thomson has been appointed the new head of credit research at Altius Asset Management. Thomson was also head of risk and business strategy at ING and previously worked at Macquarie Bank ...

Snowball re-brands for future

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Merged independent financial advisory groups Snowball and Shadforth are now known as SFG Australia. The name change was approved by shareholders at the group's annual general meeting in Sydney yesterday, after being given the green light by the regulator. ...

MLC scoops three ex-AXA for retirement team

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Shaune Egan, Stuart McGregor and Joachim Lumbroso are rejoining their former AXA colleague, MLC's current Retirement Solutions general manager, Andrew Barnett, at MLC. Joining the Retirement Solutions team of ten people, Egan has been appointed MLC ...