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New chairman appointed at BOQ

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Current Bank of Queensland director Roger Davis will take over the role of chairman, after the retirement of incumbent Neil Summerson. Summerson announced at the annual general meeting in December 2012 that he intended to step aside in 2013. He will ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Profits for Japanese companies are set to get higher despite the country already being in a bull market said Kerr Neilson, chief executive and founder of Platinum Asset Management. In an interview with Financial Standard, Neilson said the fund manager ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Platinum Asset Management's (Platinum) chief executive Kerr Neilson is confident that the fund will be able to turn around a period of underperformance in its flagship International Fund, saying that the current state of the market has turned to favour ...

Millinium wins top Morningstar ratings

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Brisbane-based fund manager Millinium Capital Managers has been awarded two 5-Star Ratings from Morningstar in its first year of ratings eligibility. Millinium's Multi-Strategy Income Option and Dividend Income Mandate received the top award from the ...

Platinum board restructure, Neilson steps down as CIO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
After 19 yrs as chief investment officer of Platinum Asset Management (Platinum), Kerr Neilson will step down from the role, but will remain on as chief executive officer. Lead manager and investment star Neilson founded Platinum in 1994 with four former ...

La Trobe Financial announces CIO and COO of the Year

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
La Trobe Financial has named the winners of its annual CIO/COO awards at a presentation on the 89 th floor of Melbourne's Eureka Tower. Chief Investment Officer of the Year went to Gerard Parlevliet, CIO of Commonwealth Bank Group Super, one of the ...

FEAL launches super mentoring initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... "FEAL's mentoring initiative has the capacity to enrich the professional lives of both mentors and mentees alike," FEAL chair Neil Cochrane said. "It is our hope that this program may support the continuation of that unique collaborative culture that ...

La Trobe scoops global awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Fund manager La Trobe Financial was awarded with two prizes at the International Alternative Investment Review (IAIR) Global Awards for its wealth management, brokerage and asset management, the fund manager announced. The Australian-based fund was ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Huh? Was that it? Was that the correction we had to have? To borrow from Neil Young, "My my, hey hey," seems like rock n' roll is here to stay 'ey? You know what I mean. It's the S&P 500's big back-to-back corrections on Wednesday (down 1.2%) and Thursday ...

Politicians move 'super' goal posts at their peril

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Recent political and Treasury debate about changes to superannuation should not put doubts into people's minds about its attractiveness as an tax structure within which to invest for their retirement, according to Michael Hutton, head of wealth management ...