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Planners rethink succession model

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... instance bought an equity stake in Maitland based financial planning practice, TIME Partners in July last year. Last month, ING Australia bought a 37.5 per cent shareholding in Sentry Financial Group following last March's partnership deal with the planning ...

ING chief joins IFSA board

ING Australia's chief executive Harry Stout joins the IFSA board. Stout also takes up the position of chair of IFSA's Marketing and Distribution Board Committee. "Stout replaces former director, Rob Coombe who resigned from the IFSA Board on 1 December ...

ING snaps up Sentry stake

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
ING Australia has bought a 37.5 per cent shareholding in Sentry Financial Group following last March's partnership deal with the planning firm. ING formed a "strategic partnership" with Sentry early last year, which included an option to take a 37.5 ...

ING senior exec moves to Zurich

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Zurich has appointed former ING senior executive Colin Morgan as head of the company's life risk business in Australia. Morgan has 20 years experience in financial services, particularly life risk insurance, both locally and internationally. Before ...

Jobs safe in Australia: ING

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
ING plans to axe 7,000 employees globally but its 2,400 Australian staff are expected to be spared the chop. ING released a statement yesterday that it intended to reduce its workforce by 7,000 positions in 2009 in a bid to cut costs and weather the ...

Free cash flow wins mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Free cash flow is a recipe for strong above benchmark returns amid turbulent times, according to Epoch Investment Partners, which recently won a $173 million mandate from Suncorp. According to Andrew McKinnon, chief executive of Grant Samuel Funds Management ...

Goss heads ING life risk sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ING Australia has appointed Kevin Goss as head of Life Risk Sales, reporting to Ross Barnwell, executive director for distribution. Goss has over 24 years' industry experience, gained in both the US and in Australia. He comes to ING from Zurich, where ...

ING Aus buys IFA Securities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
ING Australia continues to be a key player in the consolidation of the financial planning industry when it announced a deal with IFA Securities, a boutique dealer group that manages more than $600 million in funds. Founded in the mid-80s, IFA Securities ...

PIS prepares for tough year

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... managers, particularly after last year's trend of mortgage funds redemptions freeze by fund managers such as Colonial First State, ING and APN Funds Management. "We're certainly looking at a company's ability to provide liquidity because the last thing ...

ING Aus hires former Tower senior exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
ING Australia has recruited Gavin Pearce, previously the chief executive of the Non-Core Australian Investment arm of Tower, as its new executive director of Life Risk. Pearce replaces Helen Troup, who was promoted to chief executive officer of ING ...