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AMP rebuilds European team with key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... sharing of knowledge and skills across regions," AMP Capital deputy chief investment officer and head of global equities Ella Brown said. "We are also pleased to be able to offer our team members opportunities for career development and new challenges ...

Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
AFA Adviser of the Year Jenny Brown has said that clients are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown ...

AFA launches 2014 mentoring program

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... best advisers, with this year's program including several AFA Award winners such as 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year, Jenny Brown and 2013 Rising Star of the Year, Ravi Agarwal. AFA chief executive Brad Fox said that peer-to-peer learning is essential for ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
In May, Prime Minister Tony Abbott made good on his promise to be an 'infrastructure prime minister', dedicating billions of dollars to infrastructure development in the budget. But is this enough to get the bulldozers bulldozing? James Fernyhough takes ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... companies, both of which are Chinese. The new guidelines are targeted at companies with a more than 20% exposure to oil sands, brown coal-burning power stations, thermal coal mining and conversion of coal to liquid fuel. It excludes coal companies such ...

AMP Capital introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... screen out companies that have more than a 20% exposure to mining thermal coal, exploration and development of oil sands, brown-coal (or lignite), coal-fired power generation, transportation of oil from oil sands or conversion of coal to liquid fuels/feedstock. ...

Bennelong CEO Jarrod Brown steps down

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
The chief executive of Bennelong Funds Management (BFM) Jarrod Brown is to step down from the business effective tomorrow. In statement the fund manager said that the search for a replacement chief executive was "well advanced." In the interim, BFM ...

YBR acquires mortgage aggregator for $17.6 million

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... a result of the deal YBR will see its distribution channel with 700 new mortgage broker groups. Vow chief executive Tim Brown said that all of Vow's existing staff would be retained and Vow chairman Peter Neustadt said that this was a "welcome strategic ...

Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to express their views and answer clients' concerns. JBS Financial Strategists director Jenny Brown told her clients in a video that "it's a tough budget, with all Australians told to bear the burden." Talking to different ...

YBR poised to acquire mortgage aggregator

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... mortgage aggregator following the board's acceptance of the buyout offer. The directors of Vow, its chief executive Tim Brown and the largest shareholder, Macquarie Bank, have accepted the YBR offer to buy the totality of Vow shares. These acceptances ...