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Local councils set to recover more from Lehman

PIPER ALDERMAN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... collapsed firm. The High Court has dismissed an appeal against the judgment of the Federal Court, which found that the Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA) approved by creditors of Lehman Brothers Australia was void and of no effect. "The decision confirms ...

NAB a step closer to buying AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
National Australia Bank has reached binding terms with French company AXA and AXA Asia Pacific to buy the firms' Australian and New Zealand businesses for $4.6 billion. According to a press statement released yesterday, the deal includes a proposal ...

Aberdeen appoints Aust eq manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Aberdeen Asset Management has appointed Robert Penaloza as senior investment manager in its Australian equities team. Penaloza's appointment marks his return to Australia after a 13-year absence, during which time he worked in Aberdeen's Asian offices ...

Click rates rise at ESI Super website

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
More members are flocking to ESI Super's website compared with two years ago - some reportedly visited the website 200 times in one year due to uncertainty around super legislation. A recent survey found that financial awareness and potential changes ...

ING boosts life risk team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
ING Australia has appointed three senior manager positions in claims, operations and underwriting within its life risk division. Emlyn Pugh has been appointed national claims manager, Michael Williams as national operations manager and Jeff Gourlie ...

AIA appoints non-exec chair

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... and managing director at Telecom New Zealand from 1999 to 2007. Besides her AIA role, she is also chair of New Zealand Company Wool Partners International, a body that was set up to re-energise the country's wool sector. Gattung succeeds Raymond Jones ...

BNY hires insto BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
BNY Mellon Asset Management has appointed Andrew Phillips as director of institutional business in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Prior to joining the firm, Phillips worked at RiskMetrics Group in Singapore as director, Asia ...

Hyperion wins $300m Optimix mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Optimix has given Hyperion Asset Management a $300 million Australian equities investment mandate following a review of its manager lineup. Hyperion's appointment comes after Optimix reviewed the strategies of its Australian equities specialist investment ...

AXA Asia Pac shares on trading halt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... AXA Asia Pacific begins in earnest after the group requested a trading halt on its shares before noon today, ahead of a company announcement and a day before ACCC releases its findings on the AMP proposal. In addition, the trading halt comes less than ...

Can an outsider transform ipac financial planning?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... group ipac appointed former American Express executive, Libby Roy, as the new head of its advice arm. Roy will join the company on 12 April as general manager - financial planning. She'll be reporting to Neil Swindells, ipac chief executive, and run ...