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Hyperion builds investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... Hyperion's research capabilities. He joins Hyperion from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he spent five years, most recently in the mergers and acquisitions team. According to Hyperion chief investment officer, Mark Arnold, Hartnell's track record in financial ...

StatewideSuper, Local Super complete merger

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... gains tax relief measures, said Pauline Vamos, Association of Superannuation of Australia (ASFA) CEO. "Superannuation fund mergers have the capacity to deliver benefits to superannuation fund members through the ability to generate economies of scale," ...

AGEST merger put on hold

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... superannuation Bill Shorten, said that the measures "removes a barrier that would have prevented otherwise sound superfund mergers from proceeding." "We haven't abandoned the merger, we are just waiting until the legislation goes through," said AGEST ...

FINSIA appoints new president

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... well deserved." Birch is an executive director of Macquarie Capital Advisers in Sydney with over 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, specialising in the financial services sector. "We have seen Finsia develop through substantial changes ...

AustralianSuper wins landmark IBM mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... has chosen us. That goes to our governance, performance, brand and capability, because we have engaged in a number of mergers and transitions." The IBM transfer, together with the planned AGEST Super merger, will take AustralianSuper to more than two ...

CGT relief paves way for super mergers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... will receive capital gains tax relief in the upcoming Budget, opening the way for the finalisation of a raft of proposed mergers, particularly in the not-for-profit superannuation space. Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten ...

Calls for CGT merger relief

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
Lack of clarity around the Government's intention for providing capital gains taxation relief for superannuation mergers is damaging members and limiting MySuper outcomes, according to AustralianSuper and ASFA. With the rising trend of super fund mergers ...

ASIC appoints new commissioner

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Investments Commission (ASIC) for the past 12 years, holding a number of senior positions. He was involved in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, accounting and audit and policy development at the commission during this time. Price ...

Frontier appoints new analysts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Zhang joins in April from the position of senior analyst at Ernst & Young working in Valuations & Business Modelling, Mergers & Acquisitions Debt Advisory and Operational Transaction Services business units. "Kenny, Vivian and Norman will join Frontier's ...

Legacy systems cause super funds to rethink op models

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
Mergers as a result of regulatory changes including SuperStream and MySuper are forcing a rethink in how funds are managed, operated and administered, according to software provider SimCorp. The number of mergers which have occurred in the Australian ...