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Lonsec launches investment solutions division

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Lonsec Fiscal has launched a new business division, Lonsec Investment Solutions, which will be led by Lukasz de Pourbaix in the chief investment officer role. The new division will be responsible for building model portfolios for advisers. It has been ...

AIA appoints group insurance chief

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
AIA Australia has appointed a new chief group insurance officer. Stephanie Phillips will be responsible for group insurance product distribution. This follows AIA boosting its distribution team in September ahead of the transition to the new Life Insurance ...

Blue Sky scratches head lice from portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Venture Capital has exited a head lice treatment company after it entered into a $278 million commercial agreement with Indian-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Blue Sky invested in Hatchtech in 2013 as part of a $12 million syndicate of Australian ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Like most of Australia's major industries, the future prosperity for the financial services sector clearly lies in Asia. Australians constantly talk of the economic opportunity presented by the three billion people that will be in the Asian middle class ...

ANZ senior manager leaves to set up consultancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
ANZ senior manager of mandate research will set up his own consultancy, as the bank streamlines the Office of the CIO division. Nigel Douglas confirmed to Financial Standard that he has set up Douglas Funds Consulting, a firm that will provide consultancy ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has made a multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was ...

EQT appoints estate planning specialist

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Equity Trustees has appointed an estate planning solicitor to its Sydney offices. Terry Matthews joins EQT from Makinson d'Apice Lawyers. He is a former manager of estate planning for New South Wales at National Australia Trustees, and has also worked ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Governance concerns and member pressure were behind HESTA and NGS Super's decision to divest from Transfield, but a closer look at the company revealed considerable investment risk. "We looked at it and we saw that there are a lot of other companies ...

Perpetual's acquisition of The Trust Company pays off

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Perpetual Private's profit before tax was up 74% for the year to 30 June 2015, with the parent company registering a net profit after tax 50% higher. "The result was boosted by the acquisition of The Trust Company, growth in new high net worth clients ...