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GVI hires new joint MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Global Value Investors (GVI) has appointed former QBE fund manager Grant Cullens as joint managing director as it looks to expand its business. With over 20 years investment experience, Cullens joins GVI after serving as senior fund manager in international ...

AGEST appoints new CEO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
AGEST has appointed legal expert and fund trustee Cath Bowtell as chief executive, replacing Michael Seton who left last month to become CEO of Military Super. Bowtell, has a law degree and has been a superannuation trustee for over ten years, with ...

LUCRF launches community trust

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
LUCRF Super has made charity work a key priority following the establishment a community partnership trust. John Lenders MP, Victorian treasurer and minister for financial services officially launched the trust at an event that was attended by over ...

Antares wins ipac mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Ipac Asset Management has appointed Antares Fixed Income to manage a $100 million inflation-linked bonds mandate. The nabInvest specialist fixed income manager won the mandate after ipac re-configured its debt portfolio. Antares' FUM grow by over $3 ...

Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
Vanguard Investments Australia's long serving chairman and founding managing director Jeremy Duffield will retire at the end of the year, the company announced. Duffield joined Vanguard in 1980 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia, where ...

NGS Super hires development managers

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
NGS Super has made two appointments to its business and fund development teams. NGS Super hired former BT executive Kate Bell as Western Australia business development manager, and accountant Daniel Eitzen as fund development manager. Bell has formal ...

AMP appoints director of advice

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
AMP Financial Services head of paraplanning, Scott Machin, has been promoted to the newly created role of director of advice. Machin will be in charge of paraplanning, product research, advice solutions and TapIn (adviser technical support) for AMP ...

Faster and easier insurance: Asteron

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Asteron has axed mandatory personal medical attendant's reports (PMARs) for all types of cover across all products, making insurance easier to access for advisers and clients. Asteron has also increased non-medical and financial underwriting requirements ...

Aus Ethical donates $1m to charity

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Canberra based fund manager Australian Ethical announced it had donated more than $1 million into the community over the last ten years, after distributing $124,941 in its 2010 community grants program. The 2010 round of Australian Ethical community ...

Intrust chair retires

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The chairperson of industry fund Intrust Super, Shirley Mellor, has retired after 22 years at the fund. Deputy chairperson Sandy McDonald will assume the role of acting chairperson. "Shirley has played an important role in developing our fund and our ...