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Henderson completes acquisition of IOOF boutiques

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... provide our investment teams and the service we offer to clients through a number of additional high-quality hires. "Our focus at Henderson is now on growing our business in Australia organically, capitalising on our expanded team."

SMSFs and infrastructure a good investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
The SMSF Association has renewed calls for the federal government to open up infrastructure investment to self-managed superannuation funds. At a time when both the government and opposition are focused on raising billions of dollars in capital to meet ...

Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... are looking to attract a broad range of skills. Secondly, we will constantly encourage the team to have a strong research focus. Finally our aim is to structure the team so that all key areas sit under one umbrella. Not only is this model unique, we ...

Tim Steele departs AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... experience for customers. "He has developed strong relationships with advisers across Charter and ipac over many years and his focus will be on ensuring high standards of adviser professionalism."

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... responsible for managing its external manager alpha program. Victoria Vodolazschi has been appointed in New York City and will focus on long/ short equity, macro and systematic strategies. She was previously a consulting strategy specialist evaluating ...

Mercer creates new role for innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... as an approach to increase collaboration between the firm's investments and retirement businesses as well as increase its focus of product and innovation. Former retirement business leader Guy Thorburn has been appointed product and innovation leader. ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... 2014 financial year 37% of new director appointments in the ASX100 were women, reportedly reflecting an overarching market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) report ...

ANZ private wealth sees digital growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
ANZ's private wealth division has recorded profit growth of 15% for the 2015 financial year on the back of a continued approach to "customer focused investment solutions." Releasing its 2015 full year results today, ANZ said funds under management (FUM) ...

Lonsec rates several funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
Research house Lonsec has released several fund ratings during the week and results have been welcomed by the respective fund managers. Yesterday Martin Currie announced it had received a "highly recommended" rating from Lonsec for the Legg Mason Martin ...

IOOF appoints News Corp exec as Shadforth CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
A general manager at News Corp Australia will become the chief executive of Shadforth Financial Group, which was recently acquired by IOOF. Angus Benbow replaces previous Shadforth chief executive Nick Bedding, who left in late August after seven years ...