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TWUSUPER appoints new CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The current REST chief operating officer Paul Sayer has been appointed to the vacant chief executive position at TWUSUPER. Sayer is expected to take up the role in late October. "Paul has a clear understanding of the interests of the various stakeholders ...

Van Eyk finds buyer for NZ business

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
A New Zealand-based independent financial advice firm is completing the final steps to acquire van Eyk's New Zealand business. Sources from van Eyk's administrator Moore Stephens confirmed to Financial Standard that advice firm Saturn Portfolio was ...

Former van Eyk asset consultants to launch new business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Former van Eyk asset consulting team Jonathan Ramsay, Jonathan Tolub and Fil Andronaco are on track to launch a new portfolio construction advice company later this month. The three men resigned from the troubled financial services research company ...

BlackRock opens global fixed income fund to local investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
BlackRock has opened its Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund (FIGO) to Australian investors. FIGO is a flexible global multi-sector fixed income strategy that seeks to achieve a positive total return. While the fund is not tied to a benchmark, it ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The push for more independent super fund trustees has been spurred by flawed assumptions, reveals new research released by the McKell Institute. In the report 'The Success of Representative Governance on Superannuation Boards' the authors - professor ...

SFGA shareholders approve IOOF acquisition proposal

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
SFG Australia (SFGA) shareholders have voted in favour of IOOF's Scheme of Arrangement to acquire 100% of ordinary shares in SFGA. SFGA will now seek orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the approval of the Scheme at the second court hearing ...

The 60-year-old investing idea that keeps on giving

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
An investment product that rose out of a fund manager's 60 year mortgage lending experience has just notched up its fourth positive research recommendation. The La Trobe Financial Pooled Mortgages Option (PMO) has just been rated 'recommended' by Zenith ...

PIMCO names new head of Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
PIMCO has named former Macquarie division director Adrian Stewart as its new Australian country head. Based in Sydney, he starts in the role on August 11. He will be responsible for leading PIMCO's business in Australia, including serving the firm's ...

PIMCO names new head of Asia Pacific

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
PIMCO has appointed its former global head of PIMCO Advisory as its new head of Asia Pacific, an area that includes the Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo offices. Reporting to PIMCO chief executive Douglas Hodge, Eric J. Mogelof will continue to ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
Citi is offering to white label its retail banking services for industry super funds as a way of stemming the outflow to retail funds and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), Financial Standard can reveal. In what could prove a lifeline to industry funds ...