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ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance has appointed three new members to the Academic Council and another to the General Insurance Advisory Committee. Philip Maguire, principal at Professional Financial Solutions; Tiina Takolander ...

Macq Private Wealth seeks advisers and alliances

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Macquarie Private Wealth is on the hunt for more strategic alliances and looking to add to its adviser numbers. MPW, which currently has 426 advisers, full service stockbrokers and private bankers in Australia and New Zealand, most recently formed a ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

UK fundies say worst is over

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
UK fund managers believe the worst of the market downturn hitting the FTSE is over - and are planning to increase their investments in UK shares. New research by Lloyds TSB shows that fund managers are optimistic that the recent bad run in the value ...

Julius Baer splits AM and bank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
Swiss wealth management firm, Julius Baer has separated the company's private banking and asset management businesses into two listed companies. The deal means both businesses will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange with Julius Baer Group focussing ...

FLEXCUBE helps London and Middle East

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Oracle's financial services software product FLEXCUBE now counts the Bank of London and The Middle East plc among its newest clients. Oracle, which has National Australia Bank among its clientele, recently announced that Bank of London and the largest ...

Westpac exec joins NAB Private Wealth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Former Westpac Private Bank state manager Will Hamilton moves to NAB Private Wealth to become the division's general manager of wealth services. Hamilton, who will report to Angela Mentis, executive general manager of NAB Private Wealth, was previously ...

Clients listen, but switch anyway

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
More than two thirds of investors listen to the advice of financial advisers, but 40 per cent are willing to make investment switches without consulting their planner, according to a new Securitor survey. Geoff Lloyd, general manager, advice and private ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

Treasure for trash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... and the Nasdaq both jumped by 6.8 per cent. In a nutshell, the details involve the US Treasury launching a public-private Bank Rescue Plan program with US$75-US$100 billion of TARP money to buy toxic assets with expectations that this program could buy ...