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Westpac director resigns from board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Westpac director Ann Pickard will retire from the board after the bank's annual general meeting on 12 December, chairman Lindsay Maxsted announced in a statement. Pickard has been a member of the Westpac Board since December 2011. During her time as ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
"You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
The 2014 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich and IRESS were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Sydney on Tuesday 13th November. ...

BetaShares' UMAX receives recommended rating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
BetaShares' recently launched S&P 500 Yield Maximiser Fund (UMAX) has been awarded a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec. The fund provides investors with exposure to the stocks comprising the benchmark US Index, the S&P 500 Index, while providing regular ...

Family trusts overlooked amid SMSF boom

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Financial advisers are overlooking a huge range of benefits that family trusts have over self-managed super funds for their high net worth clients, according to HLB Mann Judd Sydney head of wealth management Michael Hutton. Hutton said that despite ...

New Perpetual LIC gets Zenith rating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Perpetual's new listed investment, Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited (PIC), has received a 'recommended' rating from Zenith. The company, whose general offer opened today, is seeking to raise a minimum of $150 million and maximum of $600 million. ...

Singapore CPF tightens fee caps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CFP) has imposed tighter caps on the fees product providers are permitted to charge members in the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS). The CPFIS is the section in the scheme where members with more than S$20,000 are allowed ...

FSC-ISA battle recommences over MySuper data

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
The release of the first set of MySuper data has fuelled the ongoing stoush between the retail and industry superannuation sectors. The Financial Services Council (FSC) claimed that the figures, released yesterday by the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

Van Eyk finds buyer for NZ business

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
A New Zealand-based independent financial advice firm is completing the final steps to acquire van Eyk's New Zealand business. Sources from van Eyk's administrator Moore Stephens confirmed to Financial Standard that advice firm Saturn Portfolio was ...