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Northern Trust wins $1.8bn custody mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... agents. The firm writes insurance and reinsurance business in the US through Lloyd's syndicates and Beazley Insurance Company. Last year, the insurance firm underwrote gross insurance premiums of $1.8 billion. Richard Kelley, financial controller at ...

GSJBW infrastructure director resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Ben Hare, director of Goldman Sachs JBWere's infrastructure team, has resigned - prompting Standard & Poor's Fund Services to place the Goldman Sachs JBWere Australian Infrastructure Fund 'On Hold'. Hare has decided to move to a role outside of financial ...

AMP unveils new super ad campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... average top 10 industry funds, the average top 10 retail competitors' key products, as well as index options, a press release noted. AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Meller said: "This TV advertisement promotes the lowest cost entry-level ...

SSgA wins S&P licence for ETFs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... the prices of Australia's top 200 listed companies by market capitalisation. The license with S&P means SSgA is the only company in Australia with the right to offer an ETF product replicating Australia's most popular benchmark index, according to a ...

Crédit Agricole signs on Calypso

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
CrA(C)dit Agricole CIB has gone live with Calypso Technology systems across 23 locations in Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Calypso Technology is a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing ...

JANA adds to investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
JANA Investment Advisers has hired two investment managers and welcomed back another. The asset consultant appointed Domien Beckers to the firm's portfolio construction and research team. Beckers joins the firm from Vanguard where he spent four years ...

GVI launches unhedged global industrial fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
International equities investment manager Global Value Investors has launched an unhedged version of its Global Industrial Share Fund (GISF). Head of investments at GVI, Roy Chen, said the new fund would provide greater choice for investors at both ...

Civic joins Financial Index Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
With succession planning an issue among advisers, Civic Financial Planning has merged with Financial Index Australia to ensure the firm's handover is transitioned smoothly when its principal planners retire. Canberra-based Civic Financial Planning ...

Multiport appoints BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
Former Yellow Brick Road senior financial planner, Ben Thomas, has joined Multiport as business development manager. He will be focusing on growing the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and managed account administration client base through dealer ...

Korea's big four dominate pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
The top four service providers in Korea administer around half of all funded corporate pension assets in the country, and account for KRW 7 trillion of assets, according to Towers Watson's Korea Pension Report. The new report covers 53 service providers ...