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State Street announces fixed income appointment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... (EMEA). State Street's securities finance division in Asia Pacific is headed by Jansen Chua. "Regulatory changes such as Basel III have driven financial institutions to look carefully at their sources of funding. We continue to see increased demand for ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Two global financial services heavyweights have collaborated to launch a suite of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices for institutional investors. J.P. Morgan and BlackRock have joined forces to create the J.P. Morgan ESG Index (JESG) ...

AMP kept unsuspecting clients in the dark: RC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
The financial services Royal Commission censored the names of two AMP financial planning clients who currently don't know they are the victims of improper advice provided by an authorised representative. AMP knew as early as March 2017 the husband and ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Industry stakeholders expect 90% of Australia's superannuation funds to sign the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice before March 31, despite its several shortcomings. ANZ, AustralianSuper, MLC, MTAA Super, REST Industry Super and ...

HNWIs give a boost to resurgent art market: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... growing Asian cohort, have boosted the global art market by 12% after two years of decline. UBS, in partnership with Art Basel, published a report containing macro-level analysis of global art-buying habits and found the market is now estimated at about ...

Skyring names new head of distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... established to meet a need created by tighter lending in Australia's commercial sector in the wake of the more restrictive Basel 3 requirements." "Having raised capital for multiple individual projects over the past decade, the team at Skyring have decided ...

Aussie currency drives fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... provide an additional investment option for clients seeking new ways to invest surplus cash, especially as the implications of Basel III begin to take hold. The international investment giant said under Basel III regulations banks are no longer able ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... bringing with her more than 20 years' experience in marketing. Separately, ME Bank was recently involved in the first ever Basel III true perpetual hybrid transaction in the Australian market. Law firm Baker McKenzie advised NAB and Westpac as joint ...

Lapse rates review anxiety unfounded: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
Anxiety around ASIC's life insurance policy lapse rates review among financial advisers is "misplaced" as only the most serious misconduct would result in severe penalties, a senior official said. ASIC senior executive leader of the financial advisers ...

Morrison backs customer-owned banking reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... KPMG Australia financial risk management partner Michael Cunningham said an unintended consequence of Australia adopting Basel 3 in 2013 was that customer-owned banks were prevented by the Corporations Act from raising equity through capital instruments ...