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AMP announces key marketing appointment

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
AMP has appointed Helen Livesey to the newly-created role director Brand and Marketing, reporting to AMP's chief customer officer Paul Sainsbury. Livesey, previously AMP director Brand, will be responsible for leading AMP's direct-to-consumer engagement ...

Retail funds favour lifecycle MySuper options

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
More than half of all retail funds offering MySuper products have adopted a lifecycle approach, while all but four industry funds have opted for static strategic asset allocation (SAA), according to research by Mercer. The release of the research, entitled ...

Artisan awarded Morningstar US International Manager of the Year

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Artisan Partners' David Samra and Dan O'Keefe have been awarded Morningstar's International-Stock Fund manager of the Year for 2013 in the United States. Artisan Global Value team manages the Artisan Global Value and International Value Funds and it ...

ANZ appoints a new head of Private Banking

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
ANZ has appointed Mike Norfolk, a former Royal Bank of Scotland banker to the newly created position of head of Private Banking in Australia. Norfolk's role will include managing private wealth and he will report to ANZ global wealth chief executive ...

Praemium strikes deal with RBS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Praemium International Limited, a subsidiary of Australian company Praemium, has cut a deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to provide platform services to RBS International's ex-pat clientele based in the tax haven of Jersey. Under the deal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a soft lead from Wall Street 0830 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up five points at 5,282. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Towers Watson adds five to investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
Towers Watson has made five new appointments to its Australian investment team in response to an expanding client base. Two of the five are investment consultants: Craig Mercer and Sean O'Shea. Mercer will take on the role of senior hedge funds and ...

Aberdeen set to buy UK fund manager SWIP

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013

Industry and retail models increasingly similar: Sunsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
The industry and retail superannuation sectors are increasingly resembling one another in all but ownership model, according to Sunsuper's new chief executive Scott Hartley. Hartley, who starts in the top job at the Queensland industry fund in January ...

Montgomery nabs BlackRock exec as head of Distribution

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
Montgomery Investment Management has appointed former BlackRock managing director and head of Retail as head of Distribution. Scott Phillips will head the distribution of the manager's retail fund, The Montgomery Fund. Phillips has twelve years' experience ...