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CBA plans retail bond offering

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
In a huge boost for the dormant Australian retail bond market, Commonwealth Bank announced plans to tap retail investors' appetite for fixed income with the imminent launch of 5-year floating rate notes. The size of the offering is believed to be as ...

AIA raises US$20.5bn in IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... fund, were reported in overseas newspapers to be among the largest institutional investors that participated. The sale was a huge relief for AIG, after a deal to offload the unit to UK insurer Prudential fell apart earlier this year, after the UK insurer's ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... do what he say not what he does. For what America have and does are policies designed to weakened the greenback. It has a huge trade deficit. Eco 101 dictates a weaker currency to balance this. It has ultra low interest rates. Fin 101 says funds would ...

AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... same price had you bought the property in Prague, Hungary or Budapest," he said. "Today, because of the crisis, you have a huge divergence." Craig Hurt, director at AXA Investment Managers (Australia and New Zealand), said another benefit of investing ...

RewardSuper and Fin Synergy improve SMSF admin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... allowing advisers to access fast and secure data feeds. "Most accountants do the administration at year end, and they have a huge pile of work. "With our system [and automatic feeds] they can spread that throughout the year and do a lot of it automatically," ...

Ironstone partners advisers in property

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... and research that required for advisers to now provide this property service to their clients," said Preece. "We have had a huge reaction from financial advisers who want to be able to provide this service for their clients as property now takes more ...

PAC merges with eQuant, names Greg Kirk as non-exec

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... will be able to offer cohesive and blended consulting to our clients in banking and investments," said Stapleton. "We see huge opportunities in developing our capablities for quants on both on the buy and sell side. There are a lot of quant funds and ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... tidings some more, the "sage of Omaha", Warren Buffett is back in the headlines again. Bloomberg quoted him saying, "I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the ...

Asia to reap $75bn windfall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... said. Chris Condon, who runs Chris Condon Financial Services and formerly chief investment officer of MLC, agrees that a huge chunk of equities mandates could head to Asia - but he remains cautious. "What worries me is when they do make a decision to ...

ClearView Wealth FUMA hits $3.1bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... This makes them inflexible." "We are the only smaller integrated life and wealth management company, and this gives us a huge advantage," said Swanson, who joined the group in March. Post acquisition, ClearView has distribution capabilities with a ten ...