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Russell after-tax director resurfaces at Parametric

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Eaton Vance affiliate, portfolio management solutions business Parametric has appointed a former Russell Investments (Russell) director to role of director of research and after-tax solutions for Australia. Raewyn Williams has spent the last four years ...

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Media Super has become the latest industry superannuation fund to announce it will introduce a member direct investment (MDI) option. Media Super chief executive Graeme Russell said the decision to introduce an MDI was made at the board meeting in December ...

Media Super CIO departs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Jon Glass has left his role as chief investment officer at industry fund Media Super. The fund will not appoint a replacement for Glass, with the position of chief investment officer being absorbed into that of chief executive. Media Super chief executive ...

Brookfield shakes up board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Brian Motteram has retired from his role as independent director of Brookfield Capital Management Limited, the responsible entity for the ASX-listed Brookfield Prime Property Fund. Motteram was a board member of Brookfield from 2007. His departure took ...

Planners not meeting SMSF trustee demands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
Financial planners still have a long way to go to meet the needs of self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees, a new report has shown. The research, conducted by CoreData and jointly issued by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) and ...

FEAL names CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL), the industry body representing the executive branch of the superannuation industry, has appointed Joanna Davison as its new chief executive. Davison has held the position of acting chief executive since November ...

Ibbotson appoints regional CIO

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Morningstar-owned investment manager Ibbotson Associates Australia has appointed Andrew Lill chief investment officer for Asia Pacific. Lill will be responsible for leading the investment management teams in the Asia-Pacific region. He will also contribute ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
The fees charged by the funds management industry are simply too high and cannot be justified, a veteran international equities stock-picker has said. Dundas Global Investors (DGI) chief executive Alan McFarlane has more than 30 years' industry experience. ...

Dundas wins $240m super fund mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Dundas Partners has been awarded a $240 million mandate by an unnamed large Australian superannuation fund. Dundas is the investment manager behind the Apostle Dundas Global Equity Fund, which was opened to Australian investors in September 2012 and ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
OMG! They killed Kenny...errr, Holden. Australia would be watching Holden's tail lights as it drives its car-making business out of Australia in 2017, Holden managing director Mike Devereux announced yesterday. This is because, like a spoiled brat ...