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Harrop departs Platinum

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Platinum's European Fund portfolio manager Toby Harrop is leaving the company and will be replaced by Clay Smolinski, reports Standard & Poor's. Smolinski joined the firm in 2005. According to a statement by the ratings house, Platinum European Fund ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) conducts a tender for $700 million in May 2021 bonds. AOFM chief executive Neil Hyden speaks at the Australian business economists lunch on Australian government debt in a changed financial world. In company ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... organisations was measured overnight. But with us, instead of running risk twice a day, they are running it twice a minute," said Neil McGovern, strategy director for capital markets and infrastructure at the firm. It's this risk management feature that ...

Ipac appoints chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
AXA Australia Asia Pacific subsidiary, ipac, has appointed Neil Swindells as chief executive. Swindells' appointment follows the firm's chief executive and AXA head of advice, Peeyush Gupta stepping down next month. Swindells was previously an AXA senior ...

Tasplan axes $280m State Street mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... and cash mandates with State Street and pumped a combined $275 million into Colonial First State and Vanguard. According to Neil Cassidy, general manager of Tasplan, State Street's $170 million fixed interest and $110 million cash mandates were terminated ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

OTC derivative platforms need upgrade: report

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... significant amount in technology, infrastructure and human resources to support rising trading volumes, according to a new report. Neil Wright, State Street senior vice president and product manager for derivatives servicing, said legacy systems might ...

Securitor combats bad times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... has around $12 billion in advice and 462 advisers, is not just hammering home the importance of communicating with clients. Neil Younger, head of Securitor said it was critical advisers "contextualise" the global financial crisis to maintain the trust ...

Kaplan appoints CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Ex-ANZ managing director of corporate banking Neil Shilbury has been appointed chief executive of Kaplan Professional in Australia. Apart from his position as managing direct at ANZ, Shilbury was also previously head of business banking for New South ...

New leaders at BT and Asgard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... changes to the executive line-up of the advice and private banking, insurance, and superannuation and investment solutions Neil Younger will head the dealer groups and licensee select, including Magnitude and Securitor. Phil Hay has been appointed head ...