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ISN expand policy and research team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Industry Super Network has expanded its policy and research team with two new hires to its Sydney and Melbourne office. Anh Nguyen has been appointed as a policy analyst, financial markets and will be based in Sydney while Mohita Zaheed has been appointed ...

Razor to board's pay follows PwC review

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Perpetual's directors have had their pay slashed after a review by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that they were overpaid. After the ASX-listed financial services company's 2011 annual general meeting returned a 26% 'no' vote on the remuneration package ...

Investors warned on VIX futures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Investors should stay away from VIX futures as a passive standalone strategy, one manager has warned, saying that a flexible approach to buying volatility is necessary to avoid suffering high carry and rolling costs. When volatility hit the headlines ...

Praemium captures BlackRock's SMA business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
Praemium Australia is poised to take over BlackRock Investment Management's Separately Managed Accounts business after it yesterday entered into an agreement with the fund manager. The completion of the transaction, however, is subject to a number of ...

MLC names executive manager

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
MLC has named Scott Hartley to the newly-created role of executive general manager of the firm's Corporate and Institutional Wealth division. Hartley joined MLC in 1999. His previous roles include general manager of Strategy and Marketing and general ...

Call for change follows Perpetual 57% profit fall

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Perpetual needs more accelerated and fundamental change, said chief executive and Managing Director Geoff Lloyd, after announcing the group's $26.7 million net after tax profit - a 57% fall on the previous year. A group-wide cost reduction program in ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
Institutional investors are increasingly demanding that Environmental, Social and Governance principles be considered in mandate design - and it needs to be from a macro-level, said Solaris Investment Management. "Several of Solaris' institutional clients ...

AUI stays with OneVue unit registry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has renewed its contract to use OneVue's unit registry system for the next five years. OneVue is an independently owned operator of unified managed accounts. It has been operating its unit registry business since 2001. ...

Mercer acquires Sovereign

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Mercer Investments is building out its private markets business with the acquisition of Sovereign Investments Research and their alternatives research team including founder Ray King. King, together with investment consultants Sarah Azzi and Scott McNally ...

Centralised portfolios better for tax

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Institutional investors can benefit from a better understanding of the impact tax has on returns. Portfolio structure, including active/passive and asset class strategy decisions, can be altered when tax impacts are understood, said Scott Lawrence ...