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AFA conference to focus on leadership

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... crisis management. Similar to last year's conference, the program will be split into three streams namely Practice Development, Investment & Technical and GenXt. The GenXt stream has been specifically tailored around the educational and business practice ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Australia holds a creditors' meeting in Sydney. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia function. The Global Proxy-Melbourne Institute will launch its quarterly shareholder confidence index. Minerals ...

Investors hang on to managed futures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... Investments' OM-IP products are not putting their hands up for redemptions, said the firm. Hersh Gandhi, head of product development in Australia for the US$50 billion Man Investments (out of which around half are invested in managed futures), said the ...

Tweeting won't get you jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... around 800 Australian job hunters show that almost one in two said social networking sites do not help their career development. Only 18.56 per cent think social networking sites are a way to find out about new jobs, while around 46 per cent say they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Monday. In company news, Insurance Australia Group chief executive Mike Wilkins addresses a Committee for the Economic Development of Australia function in Sydney. Roy Morgan Research releases its inaugural Investor Stress Measure, along with its fourth ...

UniSuper hires former CFS chief as CIO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... China's second largest insurance firm. During his time at CFS, Pearce also played a significant role in industry policy development, serving as board member and deputy chairman of the Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA). "Like everyone ...

CFS GAM releases second PRI report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... assists the investment team implement the principles. Neil Cochrane, deputy chief executive and global head of business development at CFS GAM, said the current economic situation has not affected the firm's resolve to implement the UN PRI into the firm's ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Investment management technology provider DST International has been renamed DST Global Solutions Ltd, to reflect a business restructure and a move towards providing software services, not just products. Starting this year, the group will have three ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... asset class or segment of equities, as there were only eight strategies that were visible to us when we started the development process," he said. Lonsec has given the fund a "recommended" rating while S&P gave it a four star "New" rating. More recently ...

Zurich expands Life Risk team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed Stuart Meyers as Life Risk Business Development Manager - NSW. Meyers has over 12-years experience as a BDM and has worked previously at ING and Asteron Life. "Meyers' appointment adds further experience ...