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Aviva snaps up Infocus stake

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
Aviva has acquired a 25 per cent stake in the predominantly Queensland based financial advisory group Infocus Wealth Management, adding its 30 offices and $1.2 billion in funds under administration to the Aviva financial services stable. Aviva's chief ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating told SIBOS attendees yesterday that China is a "very mixed place in terms of prosperity and opportunity" and dispelled some easy truths about doing business in a region going through an unprecedented growth spurt. ...

Government launches Super Best Practice Guide

The Government has released a new guide to help superannuation funds lodge returns and produce better official reports while it will also help funds come to grips with Budget changes that may take effect next year. Launching the new 'Better Practice ...

Telstra Planning appoints new GM

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
Subsidiary of Telstra Super, Telstra Super Financial Planning, has elected a new general manager following the retirement of Pat Ryan after a four year tenure. Financial planner and former state manager for Victoria and Tasmania, Steve Grinter, will ...

CBA takes private banking upmarket

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The Commonwealth Bank yesterday confirmed reports that it had moved 30 staff out of its private banking operation as part of a restructure of the business that will see it focus more closely on providing financial planning services for its clients. ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

The $1.5 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable ...

Pengana portfolio manager steps down

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
Pengana Capital's portfolio manager for its listed property trusts has decided to leave the group. Ern Koh, who is portfolio co-manager of the group's listed property trusts along with Mark Thorpe-Apps, has resigned from his post with the Australian ...

Watson Wyatt boosts investment team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
Watson Wyatt Australia has boosted its investment consulting team, appointing a former McKinsey & Company investment consultant. Andrew Grimes, also one time UK equity fund manager for Schroder Investment Management in London has been working with McKinsey ...

RSE licensing transition grinds to a close

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
The end of the financial year also marked the transition to the new superannuation trustee licensing system, with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) reporting that most of the applicants were awarded a Registrable Superannuation Entity ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

Investors should not abandon a common sense approach to managing their portfolio after new academic research found that many claims about the superior portfolio construction of fund managers can not be statistically tested or verified. Steve Christie ...