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Former St.George WM chief quits BT

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
BT Financial Group (BTFG) has restructured its senior executive team following the resignation of Geoff Lloyd, former chief executive of St.George Wealth Management and the group's general manager. The company statement did not disclose the reasons ...

PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... from providing the basic services you'd expect from a planner to a 38-company business with its own funds management and platform operation. This month, founding group CEO Robbie Bennetts said they are looking for a new PIS chief executive to give him ...

Macquarie exec joins DNR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... development. Long, who started with Dalton Nicol Reid in the newly created role will be broadening the group's distribution platform and seeking new strategic alliances for the firm. He previously worked in a number of senior regional and global roles ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... raised Kshs. 25 billion (AUD$350 million). This was the first listed bond traded through the country's automated trading platform (ATS) that was launched on the same month. The platform ushers a new era in local trading after it pushed weekly corporate ...

Malware attacks Chinese walls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Local fund managers looking to this year's Shanghai World Expo as a platform to offer their fund products are vulnerable to email-related security breaches after the discovery of a malware that targets the mailing list of the Expo's would-be attendees. ...

Lazard Japan appoints former JPMorgan head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... continue to oversee all of the group's Japanese Equity strategies. LAM Japan runs two streams in its Japanese equity platform: the beta stream, which runs three different strategies (benchmark aware, long-only; benchmark agnostic, long-only; and 130/30). ...

AXA Asia Pac shares on trading halt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... affect industry competition. For example, Financial Standard reported in January that if AMP wins AXA, the top three platform players will have almost identical market share and this could, arguably, boost competition. On the other hand, if NAB wins ...

UK bans commission payments from products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
In a seminal move, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned financial advisers from accepting commissions for recommending a product from 2012. The FSA also ruled that financial advice firms must be upfront about how much they charge for their ...

K2 wins dealer group mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... five months. Andrew Hall, head of distribution at K2 Asset Management, said Asgard added the K2 Australian fund to its platform and also received 'good support' from MLC's Godfrey Pembroke. The K2 Australian fund returned more than 38 per cent for the ...

Navigator tops best platform list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
Navigator has been named the highest-rated platform for overall functionality - beating FirstWrap, Macquarie Wrap and Asgard eWrap, according to a new report. Navigator won the title for 2009, after many years of "steadily rising up through the rankings" ...