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Cycling for charity: Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Are you up for a 100km bicycle ride from Port Arthur to Hobart to help young people with problems kick their addictions? For Quadrant Super, riding for charity is a breeze. The Tasmanian-based super fund is one of the corporate sponsors of Live Free ...

Brookvine promotes Gray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Former GMO co-head of asset allocation, Jack Gray has been promoted to the Brookvine board as director. Alternative investment and fund raising specialist, Brookvine hired Gray in a special advisory role in April last year. This announcement follows ...

State Street's private equity hits $110bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... service's assets under administration to increase by 20 per cent to $110 billion since the division was formed last year. Jack Klinck, executive vice president and global head of State Street Alternative Investment Solutions team, said the private equity ...

REST terminates GMO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... Anthony Corr, who left to form their own boutique, Continuum Capital Management, with former MIR quant director Brett McElwee. Jack Gray, former head of strategy at GMO, also left the fund manager in January. REST's funds were split between a new mandate ...

Pensioners power unplugged

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... "living cost of age pensioner households" in the indexing pool even though some economic commentators are worried this could jack up pensions so high the Budget couldn't afford it. Illustrating the size of the fiscal liability challenge, aged pensions ...

IAG restructures and jumps on web

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Insurance group IAG is to merge its CGU and Business Partnerships businesses, revamp its direct insurance arm and will soon launch a separate online outfit. IAG is merging its commercial underwriting unit CGU and Business Partnerships division to create ...

Northern Trust names new Australia head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Northern Trust has appointed Paul Cutts to head of the firm's Australian office in an effort to expand on the company's business throughout the Asia Pacific region. Cutts joined Northern Trust 15 years ago in London and has spent the last two years ...

Gray to advise Brookvine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Former GMO strategist Jack Gray has joined alternative investment specialist, Brookvine, in a special advisory role. In January, Gray resigned from GMO as head of strategy to pursue academic projects and work with the United Nations High Commissioner ...

Macquarie shuts down US mortgage operation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
A week after Macquarie Bank announced its decision to get out of the Australian mortgage market, the group's US subsidiary Macquarie Mortgages Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, wrote to brokers informing them that it would no longer be accepting applications ...

Local biotech shines through overseas listing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
ASX-listed biotechnology firm Starpharma may not have flagged much interest from local investors, but the company has attracted the attention of US funds. According to Jackie Fairley, chief executive of Starpharma, targeting US investors was a "natural ...