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Health Super CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Brendon Shepherd, chief investment officer of the $8 billion Health Super, has resigned from Health Super for personal reasons. The fund's chief executive Chris Clausen will manage the portfolio while the fund looks for a new CIO. Shepherd, who has ...

Tower improves Accelerated Protection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Income protection, TPD, and critical illness protection have all received improvements on Tower's Accelerated Protection platform as the insurer finetunes its services to advisers. The firm has made 26 product improvements and updated its medical limits ...

AFA promotes female advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... the foundation of families, of many small businesses and of their communities and yet continue to be under-represented. Tower Australia's CEO,Retail Life, Brett Clark, said the group is proud to sponsor the award. "We know that there are far fewer female ...

Westscheme sells $300m Brisbane property

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... alternative investments exceed that from continuing to hold Brisbane Square. The property is an 'A' grade commercial office tower located in the Brisbane CBD. Construction of the square was completed in October 2006, with the commercial space leased ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Despite having the world's fourth largest investment market to source funding from, Australian fund managers have once again failed to crack the world's top 100, new figures show. According to a study conducted by Towers Watson and Pension & Investments ...

Borysiewicz exits, Amundi names new chief

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Amundi Asset Management has appointed Schroder Investment Management head of sales, Brian Scott, as the new country head and chief executive, following the departure of former CEO, Richard Borysiewicz. Scott spent three and a half years as head of sales ...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board upgrades tech

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
One of Canada's largest institutional investors has adopted new technology as it looks to move in-house certain investment operations previously outsourced to a third party. The $130 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the world's ...

Tower wins Virgin Money mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
One year after Tower Australia secured a $600 million insurance deal with AustralianSuper, the firm has signed on a major partnership with Virgin Money to provide life insurance to the retail market. Richard Branson-backed Virgin Money is expanding ...

Russell upgrades insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... SuperSolution Master Trust (SSMT) as well as within some additional corporate superannuation schemes. In partnership with TOWER Australia, the group also launched an online calculator tool, which calculates how much insurance a member will need on the ...

Former VFMC chief joins CP2

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Former Victorian Funds Management Corporation chief executive, Syd Bone, has been appointed chief executive of global infrastructure investment firm, CP2. Bone was chief executive of VFMC from 2004 to 2009. He was also former managing director of the ...