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ING appoints life risk sales BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
ING Australia appointed Gerard Hayes as business development manager - life risk in Western Australia. Hayes has more then a decade of financial services experience, joining ING Australia from ITC where he worked as a regional sales manager for Western ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... opportunities. Plus, detailed information is also proving difficult to find as the number of analysts analysing firms and company management drops. This is evidenced in the latest Rainmaker data on the top 50 actively managed Australian equity funds. ...

LGS appoints Mercer as consultant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The $6 billion NSW-based Local Government Super has appointed Mercer as its new asset consultant to replace Intech Investments. "Our evaluation of the asset consultant market identified several synergies between the Mercer and LGS models," said Peter ...

Channel swimmer named Actuary of the Year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia has awarded Kaise Stephan as actuary of the year for his contributions to the profession and also raising more than $160,000 for charity. Stephan is chief actuary at Munich Re and swam the English Channel in just ...

MLC appoints head of platform sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
MLC has appointed Suzanne McCouaig as head of platform sales. McCouaig will report directly to Colin Woods, general manager of MLC Sales, and will sit on the MLC Sales leadership team. She joins MLC with more than 14 years' financial services experience ...

IFSA's Gilbert resurfaces at law firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
Richard Gilbert, former chief executive of IFSA, has taken up his new post as director of corporate affairs today at boutique legal firm, Speed and Stracey Lawyers. The chairman of Speed and Stracey Lawyers, Robin Speed, announced Gilbert will be consulting ...

Veritate $1m payment not linked to Sunsuper investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... million invoice - allegedly from Trinity and for services provided to "Sunsuper Investments" - was paid to Veritate, a shelf company owned by Ross Daley, a former Labor Party staffer. The investigation found that not only was there no direct links between ...

ISN unveils new industry fund campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... appears in the TVC. The campaign runs on national television from 30 August and later press and online. The production company is Renegade Films.

Bigger doesn't always mean better

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... shares portfolio with hundreds of stocks can often spell investment traps - increasing lack of conviction and heightening company knowledge risk. Speaking at a luncheon on Friday, McMenigall pointed out that having a stock-picking, high conviction strategy ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
The $1.1 billion Asset Super has recently completed the last stage of its investment restructuring process, including changes to the fund's cash, international and Australian equities, alternative and international fixed interest mandates. Recently ...