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Mercer adds to global infrastructure team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... infrastructure," said Graeme Mather, business leader for Mercer's investment consulting business in Australia and New Zealand. "This was a driver in hiring Karen Chester from Access six months ago. Now we're pleased to announce Toby's appointment, which ...

MLC lands corporate super mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... executive, Clark Equipment Australia Group. Clark Equipment currently has around 500 employees across Australia and New Zealand and $15 million in superannuation funds under management. "This win demonstrates the depth and breadth of our commitment to ...

Northern Trust MD changes hands

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
Paul Cutts, managing director for global custody provider, Northern Trust in Australia and New Zealand, will leave the local role for an international position and will be replaced internally by Rohan Singh. Cutts will be country head for the Channel ...

NZ Govt to enrol extra 1m into Kiwisaver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
The New Zealand Government is proposing to automatically enrol about 1 million employees into their de facto national superannuation scheme Kiwisaver, for an estimated cost to taxpayers of A$600 million. The A$7 billion Kiwisaver scheme that makes up ...

UniSuper nominates Bloomberg as asset manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... the asset allocation to AIM has increased to $4-5 billion. Amanda Dobbie, Bloomberg's country manager, Australia and New Zealand told Financial Standard that AIM had received a lot of interest from other super funds about the program. "Bloomberg specialises ...

Boutique equities manager wins big Kiwi mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Boutique New Zealand equities manager Devon Funds Management has won a large new mandate from New Zealand Superannuation Fund. Mel Firmin, a spokesman for Devon, said the deal had been made in the last month. He could not confirm reports that the mandate ...

US$50bn US manager lands in Sydney

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... officer, Artio Global. Ian Webber, who joined the company in June as director, institutional investments, Australia and New Zealand, will manage the Sydney office. Webber has experience working with local institutions from spells with Rosenberg Investment ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... the firm acquired Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in 2009. He was chief executive officer of BGI for Australia and New Zealand, before taking over at BlackRock.

Russell hires 35 new staff, makes three senior appointments

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... government superannuation, and will also work from Sydney. Alister Van der Maas was promoted to managing director, New Zealand, and will be based in Auckland. The three senior appointments were made over the last few weeks, with all three having started ...

Super funds fail green assessment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) and the Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change said that with no climate policies in place the chances of transparency, longevity and clarity ...