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Finance and insurance job market strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
Recruitment firm Robert Half believes the demand for finance and insurance professionals is forecast to grow in 2017. Based on the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the finance and insurance sector added 850 roles between November ...

OC partners for micro-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... diverse range of compelling and often under-researched companies at the smaller end of the market," OC head of investments Robert Frost. "It can be challenging to generate alpha among larger, more mature companies which are heavily researched and many ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
Industry super thought leaders have urged the sector to harness the power of the collective and collaborate more closely on problem solving to ensure longevity and continued member engagement. Speaking at the Mavis Robertson Plenary at the 2017 Conference ...

Fund managers reshuffle board for $413bn merger

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... also join the board as co-chief executives. Current Henderson directors Roger Thompson, Philip Wagstaff, Timothy How and Robert Jeens will resign from their board positions, but Thompson and Wagstaff will continue on in the combined entity as chief financial ...

Ohanessian challenges Praemium board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... have requested a general meeting of shareholders to discuss replacing current board members Andre Carstens, Peter Mahler, Robert Edgley and Greg Camm and any person appointed as a director from 14 March 2017. The investors requesting the meeting also ...

Findex assigns Aussie equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Findex has awarded the mandate for its managed discretionary Australian core equity portfolios to an active equities manager. Following a rigorous review program by the Findex investment team, Altair Asset Management secured the contract, having first ...

Bankwest MD takes interim role at Praemium

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... chief executive will take the reins at Praemium on an interim basis following Michael Ohanessian's termination in February. Robert De Luca joins Praemium from Bankwest, where he was managing director from 2012 to 2017. Before that he was executive general ...

Home deposits unwelcome in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
Superannuation industry groups are warning the federal government to keep Australia's $2 trillion retirement savings system away from addressing the nation's housing affordability problems. Earlier this week Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the ...

Copia boutique wins micro-cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... Partners boutique won a $27 million micro-cap investment mandate. OC Funds Management, founded in 2000 by head of investments Robert Frost, will manage a micro-cap portfolio for Contango MicroCap. Contango said OCFM was selected after an "extensive process ...

Zurich grows life risk distribution team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Zurich Financial Services has boosted the size of its life risk sales team with a key promotion and eleven appointments across the country. Nathan Taggart has been promoted to the role of head of strategic development and joins the distribution leadership ...