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PIS names new CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... consultancy basis on July 31. On June 25 last year, Bennetts said he was stepping away from day-to-day operations at PIS to focus on the planning group's growth strategy, in particular a three-year business plan of developing and realising emerging growth ...

AFA appoints COO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has appointed Phil Anderson to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mr Anderson said he is pleased to be joining the AFA at such a pivotal time. "I have watched the AFA grow and seen it ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... services to their clients that are original and which eschew the complex product designs preferred by the industry. "The focus will be on simplification and innovation. Expect a new kind of dialogue and better ways to help individuals understand what ...

Bennelong lands new fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... effective immediately. "This outcome is in the interests of Herschel Absolute Return Fund unitholders...Herschel's core focus, as it has been for some time, continues to be the Concentrated Fund and the Global Master Fund," said Saxon Nicholls, principal ...

AFM partners with Indon mngr for Aust expansion

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Australian super funds and institutions will be the main area of focus for a new partnership between Melbourne-based funds manager, AFM Investment Partners, and Indonesia's largest national investment manager, Mandiri Investasi. John Donovan, managing ...

Perpetual divests to focus on international equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Perpetual Limited has closed its in-house manufacturing of their International Share funds (funds) in Ireland and moved across the Atlantic to US firm, Wellington Management Company. A review of the firm's market demand, profitability and alignment ...

Resolution Capital opens US office with senior hire

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... Resolution investment strategy is to look at property stocks by sector first which differentiates us from our competitors who focus on geography first," Promisel told Financial Standard. "We also have a centralised investment process." Resolution Capital ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Equiti Capital has announced former Federal MP and Opposition leader, Dr John Hewson AM, as its new chair. Opposition leader from April 1990 to May 1994 for the Liberal party, Hewson was formerly an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... planning principles remain the same. Perpetual Private Wealth has predicted a return to 'back-to-basics' investing with a focus on timeless strategies that protect from additional risk because investors will be risk-averse to highly complex assets in ...

nabInvest swoops for Aviva

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... concentrated, long/short, sustainable and smaller companies Australian equities strategies, while Aviva Investors shifts its focus to Asia. "Domestic investors heavily favour Australian equities and it's important we provide choice in our offer," said ...