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WB Financial appoints CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
WB Financial Management has appointed former general manager of Professional Investment Services (PIS) New Zealand, David Keys, as chief executive. Besides his role at PIS, Keys has also worked across a number of senior roles in several major Australian ...

HSBC appoints investment sales manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
HSBC Bank Australia has appointed former Macquarie manager Shaun Thomas as investment sales manager within its global investments business. Thomas will be responsible for distributing managed funds and structured products to the adviser market in Australia. ...

Temasek invests $50m in renewable fuels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... wealth fund (SWF), Temasek Holdings, has invested $50 million in Californian-based renewable chemicals and fuel start-up company, Amyris Biotechnologies. The company will use the funds to support commercial plant design and construction activities in ...

Westpac FM and Mirvac in talks over Office Trust

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Westpac Funds Management's independent directors have approved exclusive talks with Mirvac Group for the group to buy all units and instalment receipts of the Westpac Office Trust. This means Westpac Funds Management, in its capacity as responsible ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

Boutique small cap backer fills bank funding gap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... said. Co-Investor identifies small cap listed companies in Australia and New Zealand and then, with the agreement of the company, takes a large minority shareholding, usually a minimum investment of around $10 million, in the company. The investment ...

BlackRock SMA tops $500m

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
BlackRock's Customised Portfolio Service has reached $500 million in FUA and launched 84 investment models across 34 product disclosure statements in under five years in operation. Scott Phillips, BlackRock's director and head of retail at BlackRock ...

Macquarie exec joins DNR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Ex-Macquarie Bank executive director Matt Long has joined boutique asset manager Dalton Nicol Reid as head of strategic development. Long, who started with Dalton Nicol Reid in the newly created role will be broadening the group's distribution platform ...

Telstra Super signs healthcare deal for members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The $10 billion Telstra Super has teamed up with health fund HCF to offer members discounted health insurance. According to a press statement, Telstra Super members and their immediate families can access HCF's full range of hospital and extras cover ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... in the past two years. Among them was the largest public debt issue to date involving the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) Public Infrastructure Bond Offer (PIBO) last November, which raised Kshs. 25 billion (AUD$350 million). This was the ...