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ASIC obtains Fed Court order to preserve funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... City Index Australian Mutual Fund operates on the cityindexmutual.com website by City Index Australasia and director, Blair Jason Travers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) sought to restrict both parties from moving any invested ...

Short-termism crippling wealth management

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... Hyperion. Short-termism, as discussed in Hyperion's paper, authored by chief executive Mark Arnold and portfolio manager Jason Orthman, 'The Economic Costs of Excessive Short-termism', is setting significant limits for the wealth management industry. ...

Social media insurance wanted for share price protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... Gen X and Y employees and shareholders, realising that they have got to understand the risks associated with social media. Jason Disborough, chief commercial officer, Aon Risk Solutions, spoke of the new insurance products designed for this very need. ...

St George names new planning heads in strategy push

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... to 50 within three years. Knight was formerly state manager for Victoria/Tasmania for planning group, Financial Wisdom. Jason Dunn has been named head of distribution, St.George Financial Planning, for the three brands. Prior to joining, Dunn was national ...

Lonsec research head exits for Morningstar

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... joins the research house as a quantitative analyst. On June 9, Zurich sold Lonsec to Financial Research Holdings (FRH). Jason Clarke, managing director, FRH, said the changes in staff should not negatively affect Lonsec's market research delivery and ...

Advisers shape new unlisted property market

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... involved about what they didn't like, what was stopping planning groups from getting involved in unlisted property," said Jason Huljich, chief executive, Centuria Property. The unlisted property market is one of untapped potential with a bad reputation ...

Lonsec bought by FRH

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... brings Lonsec under the same business umbrella as SuperRatings. "We are absolutely thrilled with the purchase of Lonsec," Jason Clarke, FRH managing director told Financial Standard. "It was a very competitive bid process and it has been a long couple ...

RI Advice add managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... added two new national managers as the advice firm prepares for industry regulation changes. Former CPG manager of research, Jason Coggins, has accepted the role of RI's national manager of investment research and will maintain RI's current use of three ...

Schroders move $25bn to single platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... business's Singapore-based investment management system with Hong Kong, Japan and Indonesia migrated onto Dimension in 2009. Jason Wood, head of Asia Pacific IT, Schroders said the expansion rate of Australian businesses demanded a core platform to support ...

Russell commodities fund on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... fund's London-based portfolio manager would be talking to Standard and Poor's within the next few days on being re-rated. Jason Patton, fund services analyst for the ratings agency, said they were placing the fund on hold until they speak to the portfolio ...