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PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
South African financial services firm PPS has launched PPS Mutual in Australia, providing access to a retail life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting ...

CommInsure appoints life head from Macquarie

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
CommInsure has appointed a new head of life product and strategy. Sally Phillips will leave Macquarie Life, where she is divisional director and head of underwriting, claims and insurance proposition, to take on the role. Prior to Macquarie, she was ...

AMG to take Abax stake

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... "The addition of Abax will enhance the diversity and breadth of AMG's existing product set, and from its base in South Africa, the firm is well-positioned to benefit from the region's outstanding growth prospects. "We have deep respect for the experience ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... (Business Dictionary.com). China should have left the digging and the mining to Australia and Brazil and Canada and South Africa et al and focused instead on producing products where it has comparative advantage, such as knock-offs (just kidding Pres ...

IRESS sees profit in wealth management

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... regulatory requirements. Australian wealth management performed strongly, and significant growth was delivered in South Africa," Walsh said. Operating revenue in the UK, excluding enterprise lending, was down 2% to UK$20.3 million compared to the first ...

Investec fund acquires Brisbane property

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Investec Australia Property Fund (IAPF) has acquired an $18.15 million property in a Brisbane industrial suburb. The acquisition, which is fully funded with debt, brings the value of the fund's total portfolio to $379.45 million and the fund's gearing ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... quarter production report while Petsec Energy is slated to have a briefing on its June quarter results. And, Woolworths South Africa chief executive and David Jones chairman Ian Moir, Macquarie Capital's head of Retail and Consumer David Mustow and Salmat ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Agnico-Eagle Mines (5.22%). The country exposure gave Canada 54.5% of the portfolio, 13.5% to the United States, 10% to South Africa, 7.3% to Australia and 4.9% to China. "Many investors prefer to purchase gold miners' equities as their value historically ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... Australian funds produce the data monthly, which is the gold standard globally. That's ahead of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, China and Thailand for monthly disclosure, though almost all of those countries have a high degree ...

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... generic overall blessing of all local currency markets. A lot of them don't seem to make sense, but Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, and Colombia do pay high interest rates and we think they're too high." "What Brazil is doing is some of the most boring ...