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AMP hires senior portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed former ipac senior investment manager, Van Athukorala, to the newly-created role of senior portfolio manager, Future Directions Funds. Athukorala will focus on large and small cap Australian equities and international ...

NAB a step closer to buying AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
National Australia Bank has reached binding terms with French company AXA and AXA Asia Pacific to buy the firms' Australian and New Zealand businesses for $4.6 billion. According to a press statement released yesterday, the deal includes a proposal ...

Can an outsider transform ipac financial planning?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Can a top travel executive help lead a $5.5 billion financial planning business? That's the question advisers asked when financial planning group ipac appointed former American Express executive, Libby Roy, as the new head of its advice arm. Roy will ...

Shadforths appoints QLD general manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Shadforth Financial Group has hired a general manager and a senior private client adviser, both Queensland-based, as the planning group continues to search for other firms and advisers to join its ranks. Former head of advice at Tynan Mackenzie, John ...

Mortgage trust managers have lots of questions to answer

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Mortgage fund managers have spent the past couple of days in damage control, reassuring planners and investors that the assets of their funds are secure. These moves come in the wake of the announcement by Colonial First State on Tuesday that it would ...

Manion leaves ipac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
Sally Manion, head of ipac Financial Planning is leaving the firm next month while an executive search is underway for a new general manager ipac Financial Planning. In an email to ipac's equity partners, Neil Swindells, ipac chief executive, said Manion ...

IMCA adds five new directors

IMCA ANNOUNCEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) has added five new members to its board. The new members are: Brett Elvish, founder and director of Financial Viewpoint; Gareth Abley, head of asset consulting at MLC Implemented Consulting; Greg ...

Saint appointed chief executive at Genesys

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
John Saint has been appointed chief executive at Genesys Wealth Advisers after existing chief executive, Greg Kirk, announced he is stepping down from the role. Saint is currently head of ipac business partnering at ipac Securities and since joining ...

MLC appoints Gupta to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
MLC appointed Peeyush Gupta, co-founder and former chief executive at Ipac Securities, to the advice & licences board as an external director. Gupta holds a number of directorships at AMP Capital Investors, Murdoch Books and Quintessence Labs. His appointment ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ipac has appointed $700 million mandates with GMO and Lazard as part of its Australian equities portfolio overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers ...