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Mercer makes key changes to investment team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Mercer has made a series of strategic appointments to its investment team to tackle individual consumers in the retirement savings markets. Russell Clarke will assume the role of chief investment officer in the Pacific region after his predecessor Andrew ...

Russell appoints three to actuarial team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Russell Investments has expanded its actuarial consulting team with three new senior appointments. Louise Campbell has been promoted to director and head of actuarial, while new hires Bill Buttler and Margaret O'Halloran join as director and senior ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
Australian shares are weaker as an Australian dollar trading below 92.50 US cents encourages overseas investors to sell banking and resource stocks. Local shares are subdued, following a two per cent-plus plunge on Thursday, following the US Federal ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of US Fed meeting

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
Australian shares are weaker as concerns about US Federal Reserve bond buying dents sentiment, with banking and mining stocks both in negative territory. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said speculation about the American central bank's quantitative ...

ASX to introduce VIX futures contract

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
The Australian Securities Exchange is planning to launch a VIX futures contract, with a launch date earmarked for later this year - possibly as early as July. The ASX will provide a media teach-in to coincide with the launch. Known widely as the 'fear ...

Skaffold to set up alert service

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
An automated alert service will be added to online equity research product Skaffold, to enable advisers to better track clients' investments. The new service, which is due to be rolled out at the end of July, allows advisers to enter attributes of a ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Australian shares are weaker as a fall in the local currency stirs an exodus from equities. The Australian dollar plunged to its lowest level since October 2011, hitting 95.11 cents in early Thursday trade. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Australian shares have opened half a percentage point weaker as falling commodity prices hit mining stocks, and banking shares rally. The local market has followed Wall Street lower, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the broad-based S&P 500 and ...

Former Bell Potter adviser sentenced to 5 years jail

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
A former Bell Potter Securities adviser has been sentenced in to five years jail with a non-parole period of three years and nine months for fraudulent conduct that cost investors more than $1.6 million. The sentence comes after an Australian Securities ...

Bravura appoints head of pre-sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Bravura Solutions has appointed Darrell Prins head of Pre-Sales in the Asia Pacific region. Prins will be based in Bravura's Sydney head office and will be reporting to managing director of Asia Pacific Roland Slee. Prins will be responsible for supporting ...