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Asteron expands sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Stewart Pender and Jarrad Wilson have been appointed sales development consultants at Asteron. Pender comes from a background in financial services recruitment, specialising in financial planning. In his new role Pender will be working in partnership ...

Magellan hires Melbourne account manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Magellan Asset Management has appointed Allan Evans to a key account manager role based in Melbourne in the firm's first appointment out of Sydney. Evans has over 20 years of financial services experience, with his career traversing superannuation ...

AQR launches hedge fund beta strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
AQR Capital Management is launching a liquid, transparent and low cost product that provides access to a diversified portfolio of core hedge fund strategies. The AQR Wholesale DELTA Fund provides exposure to traditional hedge fund investment approaches ...

S&P withdraws six ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Standard & Poor's has withdrawn the ratings on a MIR fund, a Legg Mason fund and four AMP Capital Investors funds at the request of fund managers. The ratings firm withdrew the 'four stars' rating on the MIR Australian Equities Fund Class A, an Australian ...

Faster contributions processing at SuperChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
QSuper, ING and AMP are among some of the large super funds now using SuperChoice's latest straight through contribution processing technology, Super Data Exchange. Superannuation exchange provider SuperChoice has launched Super Data Exchange - a service ...

Zurich signs on to XPLAN Risk Researcher

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Zurich risk products' real-time insurance premium validation has been added to XPLAN Risk Researcher. The announcement follows the introduction of real-time confirmation of CommInsure risk insurance premiums, which was also implemented by IRESS. The ...

ING appoints life risk sales BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
ING Australia appointed Gerard Hayes as business development manager - life risk in Western Australia. Hayes has more then a decade of financial services experience, joining ING Australia from ITC where he worked as a regional sales manager for Western ...

LGS appoints Mercer as consultant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The $6 billion NSW-based Local Government Super has appointed Mercer as its new asset consultant to replace Intech Investments. "Our evaluation of the asset consultant market identified several synergies between the Mercer and LGS models," said Peter ...

Channel swimmer named Actuary of the Year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia has awarded Kaise Stephan as actuary of the year for his contributions to the profession and also raising more than $160,000 for charity. Stephan is chief actuary at Munich Re and swam the English Channel in just ...

MLC appoints head of platform sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
MLC has appointed Suzanne McCouaig as head of platform sales. McCouaig will report directly to Colin Woods, general manager of MLC Sales, and will sit on the MLC Sales leadership team. She joins MLC with more than 14 years' financial services experience ...