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Pengana hires QIC execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Former QIC executives Greg Clarke and Kevin Wan Lum joins boutique firm Pengana Capital.

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Morry Waked, BlackRock's global chief investment officer of Scientific Active Equities and the head of the Australia SAE business, leaves the firm after more than 12 years for personal reasons.

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), has resigned - a decision that took the FPA by surprise.

Van Eyk appoints analysts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Investment research house, van Eyk, has hired Chris Bigg as senior investment analyst and Ming Chen as an investment analyst.

HOSTPLUS promotes Sullivan to exec manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Former Sunsuper marketing executive Wayne Sullivan has been promoted to the role of executive manager, marketing at HOSTPLUS following the departure of Umberto Mecchi.

Tyndall head moves to Industry Funds Management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Fund manager Tyndall Investment Management's managing director Brett Himbury has resigned to take on the top post at Industry Funds Management (IFM).

GMO head of Aussie equities departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Ric Suvak has left his role as head of Australian Equities at GMO Australia this week for undisclosed reasons - leaving more than $4 billion of funds under management to a member of the group's domestic equities team.

Former COIN Software MD moves to BT

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Darelle Jenkins, former managing director at COIN Software, has been appointed national manager of AdviserNETgain at BT Financial Group.

AXA appoints new GMs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
AXA Australia has created three new general manager roles in its distribution team, including positions in sales, national accounts and marketing and strategy.

GSJBWAM joins IFSA board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Ian Ward-Ambler, managing director at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has been appointed to the IFSA board, replacing Anne O'Donnell, former managing director at Australian Ethical Investment, who has resigned.