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Challenger's $300m profit and new product

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... (annuities) sales reached a record $3.7 billion, up 9% on last year. Retail sales made up more than three-quarters of the final figure. The funds management arm comprised of Challenger Investment Partners and Fidante Partners recorded net flows of $7.7 ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Australia's love story with its own stocks might have run its course, with new figures showing that inflows into international equities exchange traded funds (ETFs) have outpaced their domestic counterparts. Inflows for Vanguard's international equity ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it happened... yesterday. That thing I mused about exactly five months ago -12 March 2015 - China devalued its currency. (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/48312386) "It is perhaps still too early for QE ...

Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... managing director of the global investor group, Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), stated the estimated divestment figure during a speech she gave to a Women In Super luncheon in Canberra on Friday. "But the issue is not about divestment as ...

Willis Re appoints global chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Global risk advisory firm and reinsurance broker Willis Group has appointed the global chair of its reinsurance division, Willis Re. In addition to his current roles as chair of Willis Re North America and president of Willis Re, Paddy Jago will now ...

Older workers are the future

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
There is a huge opportunity for the financial services sector to seize on the opportunity posed by the country's ageing demographics story, according to Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll. The Member for Oxley highlighted ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... support them from a technology and service point of view." Citi has more than $270 billion total assets under custody [see figure 1] for Australian investors and head of securities services, Martin Carpenter, said the group invests more than $400 million ...

Climate change to shrink investment by $5.7trn

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015