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Poidevin joins Pengana

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The former joint head of Citigroup Australia's corporate broking business, Simon Poidevin, leaves Citi to join Pengana as an executive director. Russel Pillemer, chief executive of Pengana Capital, said Poidevin's experience and profile will help provide ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Federal Government is granting super funds and fund managers more powers to reject or approve executive remuneration schemes, marking the end of an era blotted by outrageous 'golden handshakes' and excessive bonuses. Under legislative reforms announced ...

IMCA debates investment risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The Investments Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia has invited the heads of various investment consulting firms, including overseas-based expert Don Ezra from Russell, to a roundtable discussion on investment risk to be held in Sydney ...

Perpetual buys Financial Pursuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Perpetual expands its private wealth arm when it bought Financial Pursuit, a Sydney-based planning firm with $200 million of funds under advice (FUA). The acquisition increases Perpetual Private Wealth's total funds under advice by three per cent to ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Barclays' decision to place its leading exchange traded funds (ETFs) business, iShares, up for sale has the potential to change the sector's dynamic and lower the barrier to new entrants. The company has released a brief statement overnight confirming ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
The days when executives get rewards-for-failure could soon be over if legislators back radical remuneration reforms proposed by a governance expert, which includes capping 'golden parachutes' and issuing share options that can only be cashed out after ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Peter Hall, the founder of $1.4 billion global equities fund manager Hunter Hall, started an investor presentation early this month with an apology for the group's "terrible performance" and set out a plan on how to recover last year's losses. "To start ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...

NAB merges three wealth units

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
National Australia Bank is combining MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest under one roof, appointing MLC chief executive Steve Tucker as the new head. In a strategy update to investors today, the bank has announced a restructure of its three previously ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...