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Gunns shares suspended

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
Gunns Ltd shares have been suspended from trading on the ASX at the request of the company as it attempts to negotiate a capital raising. The suspension is expected to last until resumption of trading on Monday March 19 when offer details and structure ...

Frontier appoints new analysts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
Institutional asset consulting firm Frontier Investment Consulting has appointed three new analysts to work across sectors. Kenny Chiang will join Frontier in April 2012 from Mercer Consulting, where he worked in the fund accounting and client services ...

Southeastern targets instos with Australian expansion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
Southeastern Asset Management has opened an Australian office based in Sydney to attract Australian institutional investors to its long-term global equity strategy. The Australian and New Zealand business has already attracted local institutional mandates ...

YBR continues aggressive expansion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
Wealth management company Yellow Brick Road has confirmed an increase of 112% in branch-generated revenue to $3.12 million on the back of signing approximately 35 new branches over the past six months. The market update released to the ASX today posts ...

BlackRock appoints head of strategy group

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
BlackRock has appointed former J.P. Morgan Private bank executive Joseph Pacini head of Alternative Investors Strategy Group, Asia Pacific ex-Japan. Based out of Hong Kong, Pacini will take responsibility for the firm's alternatives business across ...

APRA calls for risk-consistent exec pay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
Remuneration practices ill aligned to risk management objectives will be of primary interest to the regulator, as APRA implements its standards on executive remuneration. Remuneration policies that encouraged risky behaviour were identified as a practice ...

Super funds call key challenges

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
The breadth and pace of regulatory change, ongoing cost pressures and lower real yields in traditional asset classes have been identified as the key challenges facing Australian superannuation. A discussion at recent Centre for Investor Education Fund ...

Russell completes Prime Super transition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
Russell Investments is urging super funds to reconsider outsourcing administration arrangements following the announcement of the successful transition of industry fund Prime Super members to Russell's administration platform in January this year. The ...

Legacy systems cause super funds to rethink op models

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
Mergers as a result of regulatory changes including SuperStream and MySuper are forcing a rethink in how funds are managed, operated and administered, according to software provider SimCorp. The number of mergers which have occurred in the Australian ...

Forum: Women Driving Change

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
Gender quotas may be an uncomfortable prospect for the current generation, but they offer potential to fast track the remedy of gender imbalance in senior corporate positions for subsequent generations. That was a key message derived from yesterday's ...