Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 121 - 130 of 291 results for %22South Africa%22

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
... leases." IAPF, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange under the Real Estate Holdings and Development sector, provides South African investors with direct access to the Australian commercial property market.

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 ...

Northern Trust appoints Australian head

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... has appointed a replacement for Rohan Singh, who will return to the business' Singapore offices as head of Singapore and South East Asia. Madeleine Senior has been appointed to head Northern Trust in Australia and New Zealand, starting on September 2015. ...

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 ...

CFS to distribute Sanlam funds in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
Colonial First State has partnered with South African asset manager Sanlam Group to distribute Sanlam's Managed Risk Funds in Australia. According to CFS general manager product and investments Peter Chun, Sanlam's Managed Risk strategy pivots on reducing ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... only on advisers and demanded that insurers improve product design. Synchron noted that in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, "companies acted to eliminate churn (which in turn eliminates the alleged nexus between high upfront commission and bad ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer by trade, Blakey first ...