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AMP hires planner recruitment head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
AMP Horizons Financial Planning Academy has appointed former RSP Recruitment Australia director Julia Byrne as its new head of planner recruitment. Byrne assumed the new role on 11 May and reports directly to AMP Horizons director Tim Steele as a member ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
How do you solve a problem like Athena? The bears are slowly coming back from the woodworks as the vigilantes of the bond market train their crosshairs from Greece to other Eurozone countries. And we're all getting caught in the crossfire. Is that doom ...

PM repeats calls to make Australia a fin services hub

At an industry forum yesterday, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talks about the next wave of superannuation reforms and the critical role the financial services sector play in the national economy. He said the reforms are the most significant set of reforms ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
While Eyjafjallajokull continues to spew ash, there may be a heavier fall-out when Goldman Sach's volcano explodes. Wall Street rose last night as companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

Temasek invests $50m in renewable fuels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Singapore sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Temasek Holdings, has invested $50 million in Californian-based renewable chemicals and fuel start-up company, Amyris Biotechnologies. The company will use the funds to support commercial plant design and construction ...

Platinum snubs US healthcare reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
US healthcare reforms have not had a material impact on Platinum Asset Management's International Health Care fund portfolio, as the fund continue to target pharmaceutical stocks that benefit from Asia's growth. Bianca Elzinger, fund manager at Platinum ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
US institutional investors and experts have banded together to offer lawmakers a list of "do's and don'ts" in governance reforms as the Senate Banking Committee mulls over a bill by chairman Christopher Dodd to plug regulatory gaps exposed by the GFC. ...

Sanlam enters Australian market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
One of South Africa's largest listed financial services groups, Sanlam, has entered a joint venture in Australia to form Calibre Investments, a Sydney-headquartered wealth management business. Sanlam's private client arm has entered the JV. Calibre ...

CBUS chief joins ASFA board

ASFA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
David Atkin, chief executive of CBUS, has been appointed as an industry funds representative to ASFA's board of directors. Atkin will join the noard immediately. He succeeds Ian Silk, chief executive of AustralianSuper, who has decided to step down ...