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....

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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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