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SG Hiscock appoints head of research

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... investment research division. He has over 16 years' experience in institutional equity research in Australia and the United Kingdom with JBWere and Goldman Sachs, as well as seven years in professional services. "The primary goal for SGH20 is to achieve ...

BNP Paribas names new country head

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... positions for a number of leading financial institutions in France, the Nordic Region, the United States and the United Kingdom. The latest edition of Financial Standard is out now. Download it for your device here.

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... said Australia's alcohol consumption was about 5% higher than the OECD average. Members of the OECD include the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Germany, Korea and Japan among 28 other countries. Head of Charter Hall direct property, Richard ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... me up." Around that time, Forster met the woman that would become his wife and in 1990, after two years in the United Kingdom, the couple decided to go back to Australia, where he got a job at Bankers Trust (BT). "It was very difficult to get in [BT]. ...

AB appoints institutional MD

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... was previously a business leader in Australia at Arrowstreet Capital and, before that, he led the business in the United Kingdom and in the rest of Europe. Prior to that, he worked for PIMCO in Australia and was a sell-side analyst at Citigroup Global ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Pubs in the United Kingdom are proving an attractive source of income in an otherwise low yield environment, according to the world's largest asset manager BlackRock. "In the UK, the only area we have positive exposure to is pub bonds," BlackRock deputy ...

UK business leads BTIM inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... management by $10.7 billion for the six months to 31 March with strong net inflows coming from its business in the United Kingdom. Funds under management were up 16% to $77.1 billion and net inflows were $2.1 billion. Of those, $2.7 billion came from ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... headline inflation could turn temporarily negative in the coming months and the looming 7 May general elections in the United Kingdom leave the British central bank no other option but to keep monetary policy unchanged. It would have been different. ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... insurance policies 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 ...

NAB fined $40m over British bank failings

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Australia Bank's British bank (Clydesdayle) recently received a record fine nearing $40 million for lying to the United Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service as well as adopting inappropriate complaint policies. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ...