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Macquarie Private Bank scoops up Merrill Lynch MD

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
Merrill Lynch managing director Jay O'Neil will become the next head of Macquarie Private Bank, Macquarie said today. O'Neil must first wrap up his duties at Merrill Lynch over the next few months before moving to Australia to take up his new role as ...

DKN acquires 25pc in Godfrey Pembroke firm

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
DKN Financial Group has acquired a 25 per cent stake in former Godfrey Pembroke licensee, StrategyOne Advice Network, to provide compliance, professional development, research and platform administration services to its advisers. The move is inline ...

Excess contributions penalties soar to $400m

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... rise yet further. Speaking at an upper house enquiry of the economics legislation committee, the ATO's deputy commissioner Neil Olesen confirmed the figures, a sharp rise from previous estimates that $100m had been raised from 15,000 assessments. Olesen ...

NAB Private Wealth winners at private banking awards

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
NAB Private Wealth has received multiple accolades at the Australian Private Banking Council 2011 Awards ceremony in Sydney, topping the awards table by winning more categories than any other private bank. Private bankers from National Australia Bank ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... the next challenge is for fund managers to make tax considerations an integral component of their investment process," said Neil Detering, head of GBST Quant. GBST Quant is a quantitative data services business that delivers after-tax investment analysis. ...

Energy Super joins $50bn admin platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... administration processes and all the advantages that come with implementing a market leading superannuation platform." said Neil Harvey, managing director, IFAA. IFAA other clients include Club Super, ISPF, QIEC Super and Mercy Super.

Neilson loosens reins at Platinum

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Platinum International has restructured with founder Kerr Neilson loosening the reins to let team members Jacob Mitchell and Andrew Clifford lend a hand in managing the flagship global equity fund. The fund had $16.2 billion in assets as at December ...

La Trobe buys super specialists IE Group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
National mortgage lender and funds management firm La Trobe Financial Services has bought third party financial services firm, Implementation Efficiency Group (IEG). Greg O'Neill, chief executive of Melbourne-based La Trobe, said the purchase had been ...

Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... direct market is essential for that, with the likelihood it will grow to consume 20 per cent of the market," said Meller. Neil Sprackling, director and head of client markets life and health, Swiss Re added that there will be a necessary expanding of ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, said the idea that reconstruction would stimulate the Japanese ...