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Asteron expands sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Stewart Pender and Jarrad Wilson have been appointed sales development consultants at Asteron. Pender comes from a background in financial services recruitment, specialising in financial planning. In his new role Pender will be working in partnership ...

Hyperion targets retail market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Hyperion Asset Management has selected one of the firm's owners, Pinnacle Investment Management, as its retail distributor. Manny Pohl, managing director at Hyperion Asset Management, said Pinnacle Investment Management was a natural choice given the ...

AIA Aus hires Telecom CEO to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
AIA Australia appointed former Telecom New Zealand chief executive, Theresa Gattung, to its board. Gattung was chief executive and managing director at the telecommunications firms between 1999 and 2007. Before joining Telecom, Gattung was chief manager ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Flawed super fund performance analysis leading to a type of market failure necessitates development of a new 'whole of fund' metric that investors can use to better compare super funds, argue APRA analysts in a recently released research paper. "Publication ...

AIA arises from AIG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
AIA has today become the new name and brand for AIG Life in Australia as the group takes another step towards becoming a fully independent Asian-based insurance giant. The initiative follows similar moves announced last month by other former AIG subsidiaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The Australian share market was marginally higher at noon, led by BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals, as investors question whether equities will rise at the pace of recent months. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up nine points, or 0.23 per ...

ASIC's Cooper to lead govt review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Jeremy Cooper, deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), is leading a panel of five experts in the Federal Government's review into Australia's superannuation system. Cooper will lead the Federal Government's review ...

AIG Hong Kong begins rebrand strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
American International Assurance Company (AIA Group) in Hong Kong is beginning its long awaited rebrand strategy, a move expected to involve subsidiaries across the region. The objective of the rebrand is to demonstrate separation from AIG in the US ...

AIA public listing one step closer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
AIG has announced it will accelerate steps to position its Australasian subsidiary American International Assurance Company (AIA) as an independent entity in preparation for an Asian public listing. The timing of the move will be determined by market ...

Pinnacle to distribute Capital International

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management, the same firm that helped new boutique Solaris gather around $1 billion in mandates in one of the toughest periods for getting mandates, lands a deal to distribute US-based Capital International funds locally. The group ...