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Aon boosts its board

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
Aon Master Trust has appointed two independent directors to its board to help boost compliance and corporate governance standards. Paul Mazoudier, formerly a managing partner of law firm Minter Ellison, has taken on the role of director and chairman ...

BT backs new hedge fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
BT Financial Group has partnered with new hedge fund manager Voyager Funds Management in a distribution deal for the group's flagship Voyager Pan Asia Fund. The long-short equities fund, run by Voyager's seven person investment team, is market neutral ...

QIC merges its Aust and international teams

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
QIC will merge its Australian and international equities implemented teams into one division ahead of the departure of head of Australian implemented equities, Martin McComish. Greg Liddell, the current head of the international implemented equities ...

Snowball acquisitions feeding bottom line

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
Snowball Group has reported an after tax profit of over $1.7 million for the June 2006 year, with earnings per share increasing 150 per cent from $1.20 to $3.00 on the back of a continuing acquisitions strategy. The results were fed by strong revenue ...

Barclays wins S&P top prize

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has taken out the fund manager of the year award at Standard & Poor's annual awards ceremony, held in Sydney last night in association with Morningstar-owned Investor Weekly and IFA trade publications. Also picking up ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
For superannuation fund trustees arguing that scale is a panacea, as far as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
Ian Macoun, co-founder of Perennial, said he would be doing it all over again with the launch of a new "house of boutiques", something he argues will be the best solution for boutique managers who struggle in other ownership structures. The new business ...

Rice Warner adds to team

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
Rice Warner Actuaries has added a new principal to its group through the appointment of a former senior AMP actuary and manager. Richard Weatherhead, formerly AMP head of actuarial risk products and development, has joined the newly separated and renamed ...

State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
State Super Financial Services Australia (State Super) has awarded Australian equities mandates to Fidelity for $150 million and to Alliance Bernstein for $300 million. State Super general manager investment and chief investment officer, Oscar Fabian ...

SMSFs most flexible option post Budget: Mariner

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... to change their ownership proportions they can simply transfer units to one another. Mariner technical services manager, Kate Anderson, reported that by using the SMSF option, rather than a public offer fund, investors can access all their funds for ...