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Standard Life appoints infrastructure debt director, analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Standard Life Investments has further expanded its Infrastructure Debt team with two senior appointments. Alex Campbell has been appointed investment director for infrastructure debt and Marianne Froude has become investment analyst for the infrastructure ...

AMP profit up 32% in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
AMP has reported a net profit of $884 million for the full year to December 2014, up 32% from the $672 million profit reported in 2013. Underlying profit was $1,045 million, up 23%, and cashflows were strong for both the wealth management and the funds ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a little higher despite European markets closing slightly off after disappointing bailout package talks between the European Union and Greece. At 0807 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Global appetite up, local confidence down

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Appetite for overseas assets has increased by 3% over the last nine months over concerns that the Australian economy will not record healthy growth in the next year, a Certitude Global Investment survey has found. The Certitude Global Investment Intentions ...

Pershing upgrades to Broadridge processing solution

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
BNY Mellon-owned Pershing Securities Australia has adopted the Broadridge's Australian post-trade processing solution as its new middle- and back-office processing platform for third-party domestic clearing. The solution is designed to increase process ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Is Europe "dead in the water" or is it going to follow the growth trend in the United States in only two years? Economists at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum expressed different views on the future of the old continent. "They are dead in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on European and US stock markets. At 0715 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,281. Europe's leading stock markets got a boost from expectations ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

IFS Insurance Solutions MD appointed at CommInsure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
IFS Insurance Solutions managing director has been appointed head of industry and public sector funds, wholesale life insurance at CommInsure. Robert Nunez will join CommInsure in early 2015 and will be focusing on addressing "the key drivers and issues ...

Senate grills ASIC after it blocks 250,000 websites

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will face a Senate grilling after blocking a quarter of a million websites when it was seeking to prevent access to sites associated with investment fraud. A public hearing by the Senate Communications ...