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Aviva rebrands to Antares

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
Aviva Investors Australia will rebrand to Antares to match the branding of parent company MLC's existing institutional fixed income team with a managing director and head of equities also appointed. MLC acquired Aviva in October last year and has since ...

Strong period for markets ahead: K2

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... for some time and I would think that most planners are feeling pressure from clients in a crescendo of panic," said Andrew Hall, head of distribution at K2. "We wanted to offer some clear points for advisers to take back to their clients to ease this ...

Triple engagement but 17 firms get first strike

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
In the first AGM season since its introduction, 17 companies have received their first strike under the two-strike rule but a new AMP report finds that company engagement has tripled. Last year the controversial two-strikes rule was introduced on July ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
Now that Greece has again been relegated to a mere afterthought, the latest PMI update from Markit Economics reminded all and sundry that, Greece bailed out or not, a recession is still waiting in the wings in Europe. The Markit Economics preliminary ...

The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
"Baby what a big surprise Right before my very eyes" - Chicago Yesterday we became witnesses on how the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) disproved the saying that, "the majority is always right". It kept the country's official cash rate unchanged at ...

Hunter Hall names Lowenstein replacement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
Ethical investment manager, Hunter Hall, has named its senior portfolio manager James McDonald as its new deputy chief investment officer to replace newly-departed officer, Jack Lowenstein. A senior portfolio manager at Hunter Hall since 2003, McDonald ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
A brand new month, a brand new scare. Yes folks, just when we thought that it's gonna be a bright (bright) sun-shiny day, along comes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) bearing bad tidings. And if you hadn't had your fill ...

PPM expands portfolio management team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Boutique equities manager Private Portfolio Managers has appointed investment management and research specialist Ian Hardy to its portfolio management team. Hardy comes from Centric Portfolio Managers, the individually managed accounts (IMA) arm of ...

Good news, bad headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
It must be that time of year again - the time when scare mongering comes into fashion. It's the middle of October and it will soon be Halloween. So please understand why I literally jumped off my seat when Bloomberg flashed before my very eyes the headline ...

Hunter Hall executive board changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
Hunter Hall Investment Management has moved to improve corporate governance by increasing non-executive representation on its board with the appointment of Naomi Edwards and resignations of company directors from the board. Naomi Edwards has joined ...