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Treasury Group "transformational" year

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... diversify our portfolio of boutiques to fill out product offerings where we currently don't have them is obvious and our focus," said McGill. "Investment in distribution and marketing capability is also a core capability we will be looking to do." McGill ...

AFA female adviser award grabs industry attention

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
Nominations for the AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award rounded out at 105 at the close of entries, a great result for the awards inaugural year. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) launched the award to encourage women to take on leadership ...

AustralianSuper creates head of equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... McKeand will join the fund on September 12 and report to chief investment officer, Mark Delaney, who said the role would focus on growing equities investments and extracting more value from the portfolio. "Over the last few years we have focused on growing ...

US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
Devon Sharma, president of Standard & Poor's since 2007, has been replaced in the role by chief operating officer of Citibank, Douglas Peterson, three weeks after Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. The McGraw-Hill Companies ...

PIMCO adds to insto team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
PIMCO Australia has added to its institutional team with the appointment of Sara Higgins as Vice President and Account Manager. Higgins has seven years of investment and financial services experience in areas including adviser distribution, private ...

Advance embarks on multi-blend approach

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... released the Advance Alternative Strategies Multi-Blend Fund and the Advance Cash Multi-Blend Fund in a move it said would focus on a multi-blend fund investment process. "Having multiple investment managers reduces the specific risk around adopting ...

AMP targets youth with new campaign

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... $350 spending money," Helen Livesey, AMP director of brand, told Financial Standard. Nova holds a strong youth-orientated focus with 18.4% of market share for 18-24 year olds in Sydney, 765,000 weekly listeners in Melbourne and number one share for 25-39 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... earnings for companies that export cars, electronics and other manufactured goods. Mr Ive said the market this week would focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night ...

AMP Capital wins UK pension fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011

Challenger results prove annuity winner

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Challenger Limited full year results has revealed a "stellar growth in annuities" with a 56% rise in retail sales growth to $1.46 billion and life cash earnings up 19% to $401 million. Challenger also posted normalised net profit after tax up 7% to ...