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SocGen exec quits after insider trading probe

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale's long-standing executive committee member Jean-Pierre Mustier has resigned following a French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) probe into insider trading. Mustier, who had been at the firm for 22 years, agreed he would ...

Planning firms on buying spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
While some financial planning firms hunker down for the GFC to pass, many opportunistic mid-weight planning companies are increasing their borrowing activities to buy their smaller rivals, according to a Macquarie Bank expert. Jamie Melville, national ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
ASIC has welcomed yesterday's court approval of the creditors Schemes of Arrangement that will oblige ANZ and Merrill Lynch to pay $226 million to Opes Prime clients. According to a media statement by ASIC, the schemes oblige ANZ and Merrill Lynch to ...

Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Meg Heffron and Ian Martin joins the Super System Review Panel as part-time members. Heffron is a principal of Heffron Ltd, a firm which specialises in providing self-managed superannuation fund services. She is also a member of the Tax Office's National ...

Eslake joins think-tank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Saul Eslake, former ANZ chief economist for 14 years, has joined the Gratton Institute as program director in the productivity growth division. The Gratton Institute is a new think-tank that is supported by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments ...

Sunsuper extends planning service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Sunsuper has upgraded the fund's financial planning capability with On Track, a program which provides tailored on-going financial advice for members for free if the member has all their super in the fund. The super fund is targeting members 40 years ...

Aviva names SMA model managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Aviva has appointed five fund managers including Ausbil Dexia, Goldman Sachs JBWere and Perennial Investment Partners to provide eight different models on the firm's separately managed account (SMA). The SMA model manager line-up, which also includes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open flat to low on Thursday after US stocks finished in negative territory and commodity prices dropped overnight. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was three ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
UK pension funds and fund managers risk falling foul of their regulators if they don't "mandate" the companies they invest in to focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance ...

State Street appoints sales head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
State Street has appointed Greg O'Sullivan to a newly-created position of head of sales for State Street's Investor Services and State Street Associates' Currency Management businesses in Australia. The new position, based in Sydney, will be responsible ...