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More departures at BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Matt Aspinall, research account manager at BlackRock is understood to have left the firm last month, just weeks after another departure within the group's Australian research team. Aspinall joined BlackRock in November 2006 as part of the group's merger ...

INGIM continues wholesale team expansion

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... McKay said. In June 2010 the ING Extended Alpha Australian Share Fund was awarded a 'Recommended' rating by independent research and ratings firm Zenith with Lonsec giving the Fund a 'Highly Recommended' rating.

Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... announced. Duffield joined Vanguard in 1980 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia, where he served in economic research. His first role at the firm was as an assistant to Vanguard President and founder John C. Bogle. He was subsequently ...

Van Eyk head of distrib exits, staff cuts

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
Van Eyk has made job cuts across its sales, product, IT and research departments, while head of distribution, Michael Angwin, has resigned. Mark Thomas, chief executive of van Eyk, said less than 10 people were let go as part of the restructure. Angwin ...

AMP appoints director of advice

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... has been promoted to the newly created role of director of advice. Machin will be in charge of paraplanning, product research, advice solutions and TapIn (adviser technical support) for AMP Financial Planning, Hillross and Horizons planners. He has worked ...

Platforms control market, not advisers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... control less than half of their market, suggesting where the power to influence the financial advice industry really lies, research shows. "In an environment where competition scrutiny is increasing, this highlights why the focus has turned to below ...

ETFs distort stock fundamentals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... fundamentals." In an appeal for hedge fund managers, Hennessee said this is proving very disruptive. However, separate research by Hedge Fund Research has found global hedge fund assets rose nearly 30 per cent since 2009 to $1.9 trillion. "Hedge funds ...

AUSCOAL signs up to innergi

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... In an effort to engage their members and broaden membership education, AUSCOAL completed a series of member and market research to understand where their members' education was lacking and how to address it. "We found the key to is to provide interactive ...

UniSuper owns 5pc of Gunns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... its logging businesses. UniSuper is an industry super fund that caters to workers in Australia's higher education and research sector. It has over 435,000 members and $25.4 billion in assets as at 31 December 2009, and is one of Australia's largest superannuation ...

BTFG drops van Eyk for S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
BT Financial Group (BTFG) has replaced van Eyk with Standard & Poor's Fund Services (S&P) for product research to be used by Westpac Financial Planning and dealer group Magnitude Financial Planning. The investment research mandate builds on S&P's services ...