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Artisan Partners opens local office

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
... Whitney Drayton. Drayton has now joined Artisan as a full-time employee and will have responsibility for the Australian business as managing director. Prior to starting Grey Pine, Drayton was director, institutional business development with Wellington ...

ATO cold calling to test SMSF trustees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... provider Topdocs said in a technical article that "examples have arisen where the ATO has refused to issue the [Australian business number] ABN because at least one director or trustee failed the test." Topdocs national manager of training and advice ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
It's official... Australia is in an income recession. Happy now, Jan? It may not be the generally-accepted definition of recession -- two consecutive quarters of contraction in output growth - but it'll do as long as we get the "R" word tag in the economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... survey comes out Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to speak at the annual Australian Business Economists conference dinner, Financial Services Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... the horse drink the water of cheap funding. But whoa boy, hold your horses! While NAB says that the jump in Australian business conditions have been driven by relatively broad-based improvement in sales and profits and "the falling AUD may have helped," ...

UBS makes three appointments to wholesale sales team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Dunne said: "We are delighted to be attracting such high calibre candidates which reflect the strength of our Australian business. "Their appointment brings our wholesale sales capabilities to full strength and supports us in better serving the wholesale ...

Paul Barrett resurfaces in partnership with Italian manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... signed an investment and shareholder agreement with NGA that included the acquisition of a 93% stake in the Australian business and a long term plan to increase adviser numbers. Azimut Luxembourg sub-holding company AZ International Holdings is planning ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...

Zurich makes senior appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... service. Anderson will also assume responsibility for the IT function within the business. Anderson joined the Australian business 18 months ago from Zurich's regional team in Hong Kong, where he held a number of senior roles spanning underwriting, product ...

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
An international study of Australians working in global asset management who were educated at Australian universities has found that more than half are now working for asset management firms outside Australia. The most represented universities among ...