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Adviser poaching just "noise": AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
AMP refutes claims that its and AXA's advisers are being poached, instead anticipating competition from dealer groups once the merger is complete and even predicting that some advisers may come their way. Speaking at a media event yesterday, Craig Meller ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
For three years, Zurich's Group Risk business in Australia has stayed relatively below the radar. That will now change after the insurer scored a hiring coup - successfully recruiting the key team of rival IUS Life, including general manager, Phil Collins. ...

Plato poaches GMO quant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Don Hamson, managing director of Plato, has recruited another former member of his active equities team at State Street Global Advisors, with Mark Thompson joining the boutique fund as a senior portfolio manager. Thompson joins Plato from GMO, where ...

Key planners crucial when planning firms sell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
There are many ways to measure how much a financial planning practice or dealer group is worth when it is up for sale or eyeing a public float - high on this list is whether the key advisers are going to stay or not, industry experts say. Ian Jedlin ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Challenger poaches ING portfolio manager for small cap fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Challenger's launch of an Australian small companies fund, its tenth boutique, inadvertently resulted in an ING small cap fund being placed 'on hold' yesterday. The departure of Sinclair Currie, former lead portfolio manager at ING, for Challenger prompted ...

AMP Capital adds ESG researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
AMP Capital Investors has hired Mans Carlsson-Sweeny as an environmental, social and governance (ESG) analyst. He joins the firm after working at independent advisory firm Arbor Partners where he provided sustainable investment research to institutional ...

QIC chair Rowe exits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
The departure of Trevor Rowe as chair and board member at fund manager QIC tops a string of senior management exits at the firm. Rowe said in a press statement that he would not be seeking another term when his current term expires in September, relinquishing ...

Ex-IOOF exec joins Bellwether

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Boutique Australian equities firm, Bellwether Partners, poached former IOOF executive director and Perennial Investment Partners founding director Tony Hodges to join its board of directors. With more than 34 years of investment and financial service ...

Austock launches planning arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
Austock Group branches out of stockbroking and into financial planning after poaching three former Ord Minnett Financial Planning advisers to join the group. Austock Financial Planning will open for business on June 16 after five former Ord Minnett ...