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Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... global employee benefits firm. As a result of the deal, John Haley, chief executive at Watson Wyatt, will serve as the new company's chief executive and Mark Mactas, Towers Perrin chief executive, will serve as president. A Watson Wyatt statement said ...

Perennial launches fixed int fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Perennial Investment Partners has launched a tactical fixed interest fund that invests in local fixed interest assets. The Perennial Tactical Fixed Interest Trust aims to provide investment returns over a combined UBS Bank Bill Index and UBS Composite ...

J.P. Morgan grants $1.3 bn HFoF mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan selected Arden Asset Management to manage a $1.3 billion proprietary hedge fund of funds portfolio for the investment bank. The deal means J.P. Morgan will seed seven of the hedge fund manager's funds and invest in Arden Asset Management's ...

Banking customers get free anti-virus upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... easier at night after anti-virus and internet security specialist AVG signed a deal to provide a free trial of the tech company's security software to the bank's clients. The bank's customers receive a 90-day trial and a 15 per cent discount licence ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management has appointed Adam Bullpitt as associate director of distribution. Bullpitt joins the investment manager after working at Vanguard Investments as a business development manager for three years. During this time he worked ...

J.P. Morgan wins Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan has won a mandate with fund manager Capital International Research to provide services for the group's mutual funds recently launched to Australian and New Zealand investors. J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services will provide global ...

Broker gets permanent ban from ASIC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
ASIC has permanently banned Mark William Clough from providing financial services after conducting business without an AFSL and pocketing $43,500 of his client's funds. This follows an ASIC investigation into Clough's dealings when he operated an insurance ...

Plum wins mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Plum Financial Services has won mandates to administer the super arrangements of the Victorian Organisation Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia). The deals will see Plum administer services to the two funds which have ...

McAlpine leaves CBUS for Health Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
The $7 billion industry super fund Health Super has appointed Megan McAlpine to the role of marketing manager. McAlpine joined Health Super earlier this week. The position has been vacant for a number of months following Sonia Trone's departure on maternity ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... survey also found Brazil attracted the most amount investments. Brazil's oil giant Petrobras topped the list of individual company holdings followed by Samsung Electronics in South Korea, China Mobile and Taiwan Semiconductor. While Brazil and South ...