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RBC Dexia scores two

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... specialising in asset management for sophisticated private and institutional clients. The second win for RBC Dexia is South African fund manager Investec Asset Management, which selected the custodian to be its shareholder services provider for the firm's ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... as a medical doctor and spent more than 17 years in the life insurance industry working as a medical officer at South African based insurers, Liberty Life and Charter Life. In this role, Phillips will provide medical advice on underwriting and claims ...

Aus planners lead the world in business practice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... possible. By contrast, 72 per cent of New Zealand planning practices achieved a fit rating, however, only 34 per cent of South African practices and nine per cent US practices attained the same rating. "Generally speaking when we looked at data sets ...

Investec arrives in Aus

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... South Africa in 1991 and was a founding member and director of Investec. In South Africa, Samuelson also headed the South African institutional business development before moving to London in 2000 to help develop Investec's UK institutional business. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... Composite Index was down 24.29 points, or 0.92 per cent, at 2,605.95. BHP Billiton hopes to sell its flagship Optimum South African coal mine by the end of June 2008, behind its own target to dispose of it by the end of the second quarter of this year. ...

IRESS snaps up Spotlight

... felt in South Africa with the acquisition of planning software provider Spotlight Interactive for $6.4 million. The South African software business boasts annual revenue of over A$4 million and around 16,000 contracted end users, roughly equivalent to ...

MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... where he headed up the corporate consulting team. Klug has also spent time with Anglo American Corporation and the South African Government. Klug is tasked with business development focusing on strategic asset consulting to MLC's wholesale clients.

Investec measures value of advice

... takes a little bit of effort but it pays off in the end," said Lipman. Investec Australia is owned by UK-listed South African financial services giant Investec. The group's local private advisory arm specialises in providing financial advice for high ...

Bravura begins UK growth push

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
... Nucleus is a financial services partnership between seven UK Independent Financial Adviser firms (IFAs) as well as South African life insurance company Sanlam and it currently has approximately $7.5 billion under management. The new platform allows Nucleus ...

TOWER to tower after PrefSure merger

... to its combined insurance suite. TOWER bought PrefSure Holdings early this year for $145 million from the group's South African parent Liberty. The deal finally received the seal of approval from the regulators late last month, making TOWER one of the ...