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Standard Life fined $4m for bad marketing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... Services Authority (FSA) found Standard Life Assurance failed to implement proper systems and control over the Pension Sterling fund, which includes the marketing material. The regulator's investigation found the marketing material was not "clear, fair ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... fire under the market," he said. "The market is performing well today and there's no prizes for guessing why, after the sterling performance in the US last night... stocks and commodity prices doing well." "It's easing back a little bit." The major miners ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... level of the federal funds rate (0.0 - 0.25 per cent). Signs are slowly building that the US dollar could go the way of Sterling. The American dollar replaced the British pound in the 1930s as the world's major reserve currency following Britain's fall ...

Canada plan in talks to buy Livingston

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has entered a consortium with private equity firm Sterling Partners to buy Livingston International Income Fund. According to Livingston's website, the firm - through its operating subsidiaries - is Canada's ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... little or no allocation to international equities, this could mean SMSF investors have been missing out on Asian equities' sterling performance, if the meteoric 41.3 per cent rise in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in the last eight months is anything ...

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... the US. Before his time at Macquarie, Mancini worked as a senior associate in mergers and acquisitions at Shearman and Sterling and, prior to that, as an associate in the corporate and banking division in Allen Arthur Robinson. Leckie most recently worked ...

Advisers turn to unlisted property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... investments for their clients in 2009. Meanwhile Tony Veale, executive chairman of GDI Property Group, views this year as a sterling opportunity to get back into the property playing field. Veale said 2009 promises to be a "one-in-20 year opportunity" ...

UK fund seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... mandate for up to 40 per cent of the fund's assets, including all of its UK equities, regional overseas equities and sterling bonds. "The expected initial allocation is 20 per cent of the fund assets excluding property," said the statement. Managers ...

Macq and OzForex steps up pension transfers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... chief executive, said transferring superannuation savings from the UK usually required the super fund to pay in a Pound Sterling cheque to a bank where the conversion is made. "This typically take a minimum of six to 10 weeks from the date the UK pension ...