Former WorkCover NSW head of risk management and compliance Melanie O’Rourke has joined NSW State Super as manager of investment operations.
Ian Harding: income paramount in Australian equities
Watch part seven of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more
Victor Rodriguez talks Australian covered bonds
Watch part five of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more
Andrew Parsons says REITs rebound with US economic recovery
Watch the eight and final part of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor … Read more
Eng Teck Tan on Asian infrastructure and consumer spending
Watch part six of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more
Bill Bovingdon’s happy new bond manager life
In April 2010 Bill Bovingdon was driving his Toyota Kluger on South Australia’s Coorong Peninsula when he got a call from a headhunter. With his wife pressing the mobile phone to his ear, Bovingdon was asked whether he was interested in in becoming the head of fixed income at a large Australian asset manager. “After … Read more
Super fund mandates are worth fighting for
Funds management salespeople say it’s been “hard” to win investment mandates from superannuation funds. “Money isn’t moving,” one told me in January. But least he, unlike other salespeople, still has a job.
Van Athukorala to leave AMP Capital
Van Athukorala, a senior portfolio manager, will leave the combined investment team of AMP Capital and IPAC on March 30. “As a result of the teams merging we identified duplication in four roles,” says an AMP Capital statement. Guneet Rana, a senior investment manager, Simon Romijn, a senior investment specialist and John Zavone, a senior … Read more
The man brokers, asset managers must thank
James Spenceley may be the most important man in asset management and stockbroking in Australia many have never heard of. Spenceley’s Vocus Communications has laid 140 kilometres of fibre optic in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Some of it is in Sydney links the finance community with Chi-X Australia Ltd. and ASX Group’s Gore Hill data … Read more
