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INGIM cuts jobs before takeover

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
ING Investment Management is cutting staff numbers in the lead up to its takeover by UBS Asset Management, with estimates at 36 staff cuts to date. Notice of potential job cuts was given back in June when news of the takeover was announced, with the ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... at a relative disadvantage compared to smaller peers in terms of being able to nimbly move in and out of stocks," it said. ING Select Leaders Trust and ING Alpha Plus Australian Share Fund were both downgraded from Recommended to Fund Watch, after UBS ...

Tyndall expands credit team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... in its structured finance business. Simon Wang has joined Tyndall from Navigator Project Finance. Wang was previously with ING Investment Management for four years in the fixed interest and investments solutions team. John Sorrell, head of credit at ...

Van Der Wielen heads to UK group Friends Life

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... Australia's wealth management sector. "John's appointment, building on ANZ's acquisition last year of the remaining 51% stage of ING Australia, signals our intention to grow more aggressively in the wealth segment," said Phil Chronican, the group's chief ...

Super funds need modern platforms to disclose holdings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... said. Global platform provider SimCorp, which services up to 70% of the European institutional market including Alliance and ING, said the problem for super funds was old platforms that can't cope with the regulatory change cheaply and easily. Peter ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
A return to safe investments and investor aversion to risk is predicted following recent market fluctuations, but advisers are firm that strong planning principles remain the same. Perpetual Private Wealth has predicted a return to 'back-to-basics' ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... being 1.5% for Wavestone Australian Equity Long Short Fund and the K2 Australian Absolute Return Fund. The cheapest was the ING Extended Alpha Australian Share Fund at 0.75%. A well-designed fee structure achieves a win-win outcome for both investors ...

ING Investment adopts Bloomberg Platform

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
ING Investment Management has adopted Bloomberg's research platform to keep connected with trade idea performance worldwide. ING IM is the first investment firm to use this technology which provides a network for portfolio managers to communicate with ...

Big six use advisers for sales while clients confused on independence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Commonwealth Bank with an average of 72.8%, then BT / Westpac with 71.8% and NAB/MLC with 68.6%. Last of the Big Six was ANZ/ING with an average of 45.3% of super products obtained through financial planners with the same fund manager. While a consumer ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Dorrian - PIMCO NOMINEES A, Jean-Luc Ambrosi - Vanguard Investments A, Brian Deleany - AMP Capital Investors A, Jim McKay - ING Investment Management A, James Hordern - Hunter Hall Investment Management Rainmaker Marketer of the Year (Financial Planning) ...