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Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Towers Watson has appointed a senior consultant to be based in the company's Sydney office. Aongus O'Gorman took up the role on 13 July and specialises in liquid diversifying strategies. O'Gorman was previously managing director of Round Tower Solutions ...

ANZ ETFs added to BT, Asgard platforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... Financial Standard in May, ANZ became the first of Australia's big four banks to provide ETF products when it created a new company, ANZ ETFS Management Limited, with ETF Securities. The funds offered include the ANZ ETFS S&P/ASX100 ETF (ZOZI), S&P/ASX300 ...

Perpetual sheds $3 billion

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... Investments, meanwhile, made a distribution payment (net of automatic re-investments) of $1.2 billion to clients, which the company said reflects outperformance and the realisation of capital gains. This compares to $1.3 billion at the same time last ...

Class appoints three board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... (SMSF) administration software Class Super. Class chairman Barry Lambert said the appointments will be invaluable as the company prepares for an IPO. Joining the Class board as non-executive directors are Kathryn Foster and Matthew Quinn. Their appointments ...

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... Commission in to the financial planning industry. Williams told ABC he was not satisfied by IOOF's response last week when the company's managing director Christopher Kelaher was asked about why he never reported alleged wrongdoings to ASIC. When Kelaher ...

Mercer appoints new custodian

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Mercer has appointed Northern Trust Company (NTC) as custodian for its $25 billion in investment and superannuation assets. NTC was selected "following an extensive and competitive tender process," according to Mercer's statement. "NTC was appointed ...

Queensland director banned for two years

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Queensland company director from providing financial services for two years after failing to ensure the company complied as a Responsible Entity under the Corporations Act. Between ...

Top industry super funds align with Empirics

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... industry funds are now migrating to Empirics over the next two years. Empirics chief executive, Darrell Ludowyke, said the company's analytics offering meets growing demand from funds to drive more effective member retention, engagement and reporting ...

Australia stocks tumble on commodity falls

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... fallen $1.13 to $84.64, National Australia Bank was down 41 cents to $32.92 and Westpac was 54 cents lower at $32.62. In company news, Alumina shares lifted half a cent to $1.43 after announcing it received $US71 million in income in the first half of ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... 36% or 6.48 million Australians owning listed investments personally, via a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or through a company structure. In 2014 there were 540,000 people who only invested indirectly, while 5.8 million invested either directly or both ...