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Banks suspected of pocketing grandfathered commissions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... commissions straight to the bank. "We have asked ASIC to urgently investigate, through a survey of major financial institutions, the extent of 'orphan commissions' to better inform the public debate regarding the legitimacy or otherwise of the proposed ...

Affinia hires regional business consultants

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... designing tailored marketing solutions for advisers. Pegg has held a number of consultancy roles with several industry institutions and also has extensive experience as a risk adviser. "The Affinia business consultant role is unique to the industry because ...

Westfield restructure gets green light, UniSuper to retain holding

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... institutional investors in the past few weeks. "Ultimately they ran a very successful lobbying campaign against those institutions that voted against it or didn't vote," he told AAP. "The question is, who flipped?"

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... hundreds of years of data before they move. "And of course, because infrastructure is direct and done between the big institutions, the amount of transparency that people have on it is limited." He said there is also the question of cost. Many boutique ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Since it was initiated by HESTA, UniSuper and VicSuper in 2009, the association has grown. To date, more than 50 institutions managing $100 billion in Australian equities, have signed in as members to show their support. And while the spotlight this ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... the Australian financial adviser market. "Individual investors deserve the same right to uncorrelated returns as institutions," said Kabiller. "What leads people not to invest in unfamiliarity and uncomfortability but we know individuals need it so we're ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... emphasised: "targeted longer-term refinancing operations" (TLTROs) worth a,-400 billion or cheap loans to credit institutions that, in turn, could prove growth in net lending - new loans minus redemptions -- to household and non-financial corporations. ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... would announce a reduction in its key interest rate or a negative deposit rate or extend long-term loans to financial institutions or... all of the above. But in case you didn't notice, the euro has only fallen by a mere 0.3% versus the greenback to ...

IOOF and SFGA union rattles top ranks

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... independent? I'm not sure," Prendeville said, and added: "they don't have the same level of manufacturing than big institutions, so I guess they're more independent than banks." This story first appeared in the June 2 issue of Financial Standard. Download ...

Bloomberg names exec to lead new bond indices business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... and New Zealand, and license index-linked funds/swaps, custom index services and index subscriptions to financial institutions and the index user community. Angel spent over four years with UBS Australia Bond Indices and previously was in equities research. ...