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ANZ Australia CEO steps down, replacement announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... responsibilities as global head of retail. "Under Phil's leadership our Australian franchise is now stronger than ever with consistent above system growth in home and business lending, a stronger funding profile and high levels of customer satisfaction ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... for the Bank of England (BOE). In its Quarterly Inflation Report, the BOE predicts inflation to average to just a little above zero next quarter before increasing to 1.96% in 2017 and 2.15% the year after. Two years??? Then there's China where consumer ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... 5,835.5, according to preliminary figures. NEW YORK - The S&P 500 has closed at a fresh record high, while the Dow ended above 18,000 for the first time in 2015 following good economic data out of Germany. The broad-based S&P 500 gained 8.51 points (0.41 ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... Rainmaker noted that these short run investment return outcomes are at the moment enabling retail MySuper products to fight above their weight because while retail products make up 30% of MySuper products in the SelectingSuper MySuper performance survey ...

CBA wealth management FUA up 11%

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... government debt levels and timeframes, infrastructure priorities, foreign investment, business competitiveness policies and, above all, job creation."

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 48.39 (1.03 per cent) to 4,765.10. US oil prices gained more than four per cent to close above $US50 a barrel, lifting petroleum stocks. Dow member ExxonMobil climbed 1.0 per cent, while oil-services giant Halliburton ...

Naos adds portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... broadening and deepening our investment capabilities as well as our ability to further promote and support consistently above-benchmark returns for investors," Naos managing director and fund manager Sebastian Evans said. "Our investment philosophy has ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... expansion, Probyn said. Pricipal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur disagreed: "We are expecting 18 months of above trend growth in US and we see Europe only two years behind." He argued that the fall in oil prices is likely to help growth ...

VicSuper awards $100M absolute return mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... strategy. The mandate was awarded to Payden & Rygel (P&R) absolute return strategy, which aims to generate returns of 2% above the 3 month AFMA Bank Bill Swap Rate over the medium term. This is the second mandate VicSuper has awarded to P&R in the past ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... stocks tumbled by 9.2 per cent, with the banks plunging by a quarter or more, and yields on Greek 10-year bonds also rose above the symbolic barrier of 10 per cent. Piraeus Bank lost nearly 29 per cent, Alpha Bank was down around 26 per cent and National ...