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Behaviour key to increased insurance sales

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... increase insurance take up in Australia, as well as improving the reputation of the industry, according to MetLife senior vice president, Joe Jordan. With fierce debate surrounding commissions on life insurance and what impact their absence would have ...

PIMCO adds to insto team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
PIMCO Australia has added to its institutional team with the appointment of Sara Higgins as Vice President and Account Manager. Higgins has seven years of investment and financial services experience in areas including adviser distribution, private ...

PIS names new CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... director, Asia Pacific, private equity and M&A services for insurance broker and risk adviser, Marsh. Prior to that, Walther was vice president, Leveraged Finance Group with NatWest USA and Fleet Bank, specialising in high leveraged transactions. Grahame ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... on the CBOE via VIX-based products such as futures, options, exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes, Matt Moran, vice president of business development for the CBOE, told the CFA Institute Australia Investment Conference in Sydney that it had ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... receiving a $100 million Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate in April from Colonial First State. Lucas Rooney, senior vice-president of Neuberger Berman Australia, told Financial Standard that while Australian institutions have been very interested ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... they've given these credit-rating agencies renewed credibility. Oh, sorry I meant to say most investors. Certainly Lucy Nobbe, vice-president of the brokerage arm of US investment bank Wedbush, was one unhappy vegemite. She hired a plane to fly over ...

CFSGAM appoints soft commodities specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Maia joins CFSGAM from Merrill Lynch where he covered chemicals, paper and packaging and agricultural sectors as a research vice president. Maia previously worked as a research associate, working across metals, steel and building materials and has covered ...

Deutsche Bank appoints Merrill private wealth head

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... Skala AO, acting head of the private wealth business for the past 18 months, will remain involved with it, as well as being Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank's private wealth management division has more than 4,550 employees and almost 80,000 ...

PIF Action Group lands Federal Court win

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... may well have been a tactic to stem the investor action to remove Wellington as managers of the Fund," said Charles Hodges, vice president for PIFAG, who was pleased with the result but expects the case to continue. "After agreeing to have all proxies ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... reforms, which have a high likelihood of stabilizing debt service requirements at manageable levels," says Sarah Carlson, Vice President-Senior Analyst in Moody's Sovereign Risk Group and lead analyst for Greece. "Nevertheless, the macroeconomic ...