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Fin services execs earn big bucks

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
The financial services industry's top executives continue to be among the best paid professionals, according to the Australian Financial Review's latest executive salary review. Alongside the usual suspects - including chief executives of the big 4 ...

Fees on SG super should be cost-recovery: IPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Fees on compulsory superannuation should be slashed to only be on the basis of cost-recovery, said the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Sinclair Davidson, a senior fellow at the IPA and professor of institutional economics at ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Whac-a-mole 2.0! Remember whac-a-mole 1.0 when the global financial crisis was just starting? It was then, that the air was ripe with speculation as to which financial institution's head - Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie, AIG - the US Fed/Treasury tandem ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... Financial Management conducts a tender process for the issue of $500 million of April 2020 bonds. In equities news, Commonwealth Bank Australia chief executive Ralph Norris addresses the British Chamber of Commerce on "Why the Financial Crisis wasn't ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... broader S&P 500 index lost 0.12 per cent. The banks mainly were higher at noon. ANZ was leading the way, after reports the bank failed to win control of South Korea's fifth-largest bank. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea's Hana Financial ...

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Fund manager Hunter Hall has outperformed its respective benchmarks across all of its trusts in the year to October, vindicating the group's stockpicking strategies and value investing model. Speaking at an investor briefing yesterday, the group reported ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... following the deal to $147 billion, ranking it among one of Asia's largest investment management companies. A subsidiary of bank giant Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co, the firm is actively building out its Asian and international operations, owning 40 per ...

SAM becomes TransCap

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Sustainability Asset Management Australia has quietly rebranded itself as Transformation Capital and severed ties with 135 billion plus European investment house Robeco. The news casts doubt on the presence of Robeco - the funds management and boutique ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... AEDT, the December share price index contract was 16 points higher at 4,723 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November 2 monetary policy meeting. The Melbourne Institute releases its Wages ...

NabInvest adds credit start-up to boutique stable

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... is John Sullivan, a co-founder of US$500 million Congis Capital and former investment professional at GE Capital and Royal Bank of Scotland. The Wiltshire Capital investment team is complemented by a highly experienced advisory board comprising members ...