AUSTRALIAN MARKET
People & Products
Bolinowsky steps aside at UBS to head institutional sales, while former AWM asset management chief Ben Heap steps in....
Life/Risk
ALI Group has formed a long-term strategic alliance with global life insurer Metlife under which Metlife will become the insurance partner for ALI Group’s new mortgage an...
Financial planning
The average Australian active fund manager failed to outperform the index after fees over the past financial year....
Financial planning
ASIC has begun its daily aggregated short positions reports, which are aimed at improving short selling transparency in the Australian market....
Financial planning
Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry has launched a booklet outlining the benefits of Islamic finance and aimed at dispelling misconceptions....
Financial planning
RBS Group has partnered with NAB to develop a capital guaranteed product aimed at providing cash-locked investors with an opportunity to re-establish market exposure....
Financial planning
Penson Financial Services enters into clearing house deal with Austock subsidiary....
Financial planning
Cerulli predicted that only five master trust and wrap account providers would survive a round of price wars and industry consolidation by 2004. Is it possible they got t...
Funds management
Investors looking to take advantage of the global economic recovery should look to global equities, according to AXA chief investment officer Mark Dutton....
Financial planning
ASIC will take on supervision of Australia's financial markets as of the third quarter of 2010....
Financial planning
Australian delays in adopting regulations currently in place in the UK, which are facilitating a shift from insurance to a managed investment focus, will have a high cost...
Financial planning
Two senior managers of the AIA Australia Adviser Services team have left the company with immediate effect....
Financial planning
Peter Dawson and Julie Rigoni have teamed up to launch a new business advisory consulting firm for Australian and offshore investment managers....
Financial planning
Australia’s major superannuation administrators are arguing that there is little margin in super administration, and that the failure of CitiStreet is proof of this....
Financial planning
Investors should diversify across different countries, rather than different asset classes, for true diversification, according to the head of Intrinsic Value Investments...
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