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BTFG restructures investment business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
BT Financial Group has reorganised to bring a number of separate investment business units under the same umbrella. BT Investment Solutions, as the division will be known, ties together Advance Asset Management, Westpac Online Investing and BT's own ...

Business as usual for PIMCO Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The head of PIMCO's investment business in Australia expects no changes to processes, investment strategy or personnel following the shock exit of 'bond king' Bill Gross last month. "The Australian portfolio management team continues to invest for our ...

ASIC bans person who made false Facebook investment claims

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
A person from a Sydney-based investment business has been banned from providing financial services after he persuaded investors to invest money with him on the false grounds that he had access to an exclusive deal involving the Facebook initial public ...

Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... infrastructure team with the appointment of Farhad Billimoria as investment leader for the Pacific arm of the investment business. Billimoria joins Mercer from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where he was a portfolio manager ...

Perpetual launches Global Share Fund on profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... Lloyd said global equities is a natural and logical extension of the group's successful Australian equities investment business. The strategy will be managed by former PM Capital analyst Garry Laurence under the leadership of head of equities Matt Williams. ...

NAB quarterly profit up 7%

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... and the impact of higher funds under management (FUM) was offset by a mix change to lower margin wholesale investment business in the period. "Like all large businesses, there are things we can do better at NAB and we will have more to say on this at ...

Treasury Group shares surge on merger news

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... in Australian fund manager Treasury Group have surged more than 9% following news of a merger with US-based investment business Northern Lights Capital Partners. Treasury Group stocks shot up 88 cents to $10.53 in an hour's trade on Tuesday, adding 9.1 ...

Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
QIC's Australian small cap investment team will shortly join Brisbane-based global investment business Channel Capital. QIC agreed to divest its smaller companies capability after determining it a non-core business. Channel Capital was spun out fund ...

Mercer allocates $150M AXA IM global SmartBeta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA Investment Managers' global investment grade SmartBeta credit strategy. The mandate complements other managers within Mercer's global credit portfolio and aims at achieving ...

Towers Watson names global head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Towers Watson has appointed Chris Ford to the UK-based role of global head of its investment business, following the departure of Carl Hess from the role. Hess, who held the position from 2008, will remain at Towers Watson and become managing director ...