The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper

READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 111 - 120 of 260 results for "Australian PRI"

Boutique appoints distribution lead

KANIKA SOOD | WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018

A $2.1 billion boutique asset manager has appointed a distribution professional who will focus on family offices as the firm continues to expand its team. Warakirri Asset Management is welcoming Stuart Devlin to its Melbourne office. In the newly-created ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018

If there's one thing Australia's "weekus horribilis" proved, it's that financial markets hate uncertainty. The week of 20-24 August began with a challenge to sitting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party and ended ...

Credit Suisse promotes private banking specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018

Credit Suisse appointed a new head of private banking Australia, promoting from within. Currently market leader at Credit Suisse Private Banking Australia, Michael Marr will lead the business from August 1. He replaces Alex Wade who, since January 2017 ...

Independent planning firm jumps into agriculture

HARRISON WORLEY | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018

Growth Farms' recently launched farm leasing fund picked up a cornerstone investment from a $1 billion advisory group. Providence Wealth has made a "substantial" investment in the fledgling Australian Agricultural Lease Fund, making it the fund's cornerstone ...

IMF Bentham eyes potential Facebook, Cambridge Analytica goldmine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018

IMF Bentham will potentially fund a class action against Facebook, having already invested in a complaint against the social media giant in response to the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. IMF Bentham is funding a new representative complaint ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD | MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018

Issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities hit record levels in Australia last year, led by non-bank lenders. And even though the residential mortgage-backed security pool is ripe for picking by fixed income and debt managers, challenges surround ...

Global infrastructure manager opens Australian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018

A $13 billion global private markets investor will open an office in Melbourne to capitalise on recent success in Australian infrastructure investment. Northleaf Capital Markets said establishing a formal presence in Australia extends the boutique's ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018

Just when the threatening clouds of Quitaly and its negative repercussions on the whole of the Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD | MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018

There is division over whether or not private life insurers should be able to fund medical treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018

What better to focus the minds of the Australian Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer than a general election coming to a theatre near us - no later than May next year. This time is not different. The government of the day is going out here, there and ...

PAGE:

Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

Videos

Brought to you by

Follow the leaders

Maintaining a fundamental focus in a world obsessed with the short term

Strength amid noise

SMILE through retirement - tackling the top 5 (Sequencing, Market, Inflation, Longevity, Emotion) retirements risks

Global economic outlook and the case for local currency emerging market debt: Resilience, risk, and opportunity

The market has changed. The opportunity hasn't.

A guaranteed future

MORE VIDEOS

Products

'Guide To' Series

Pocket investment guides featuring adviser case studies and a glossary.

MORE INFO

Publisher's Forum

Investing trends and strategies from the industry’s thought leaders.

MORE INFO

Product Showcases

Putting the spotlight on investment products that matter.

MORE INFO

Expert Feed

Christian Mueller-Glissmann

Head of Asset Allocation Research

Goldman Sachs

When geopolitics becomes a portfolio risk

Geopolitics is back - again - and Australian investors can no longer treat it as distant background noise.

READ MORE

Tania Milnes

General Manager Membership

Financial Advice Association Australia

Does association membership still matter?

With all the changes the advice sector has experienced in recent years, such as regulatory reform and increased education and professional standards ...

READ MORE