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NAS searching for new EGM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) chair and National Australia Bank (NAB) general manager David Knights has been appointed as the acting head of NAB's Asset Servicing business. The appointment follows the resignation of NAS executive ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Applications for Significant Investor Visas (SIVs) have fallen dramatically since new rules requiring investment in start-ups and emerging companies were introduced in July. Reports from November showed there have been just 19 applications since the ...

Magellan prepping ASX-quoted version of infra fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Magellan Asset Management is replicating the structure of its innovative ASX-quoted managed fund for its global listed infrastructure fund. The move, expected to be completed in the first half of 2016, follows the success of the listed Magellan Global ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The top earning international shares exchange traded product (ETP) didn't even exist 12 months ago. Its category didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
What's the time Mr. Wolf? It's crunch time... the time when the US Federal Reserve walks its talk. Come the 16th of December, America's central bank begins its quest to return monetary policy back to normal - exactly seven years to the day when it first ...

Belabouring the labour market stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
"Tell them they're dreaming!" Perhaps Virginia, for despite headlines upon headlines of woeful below trend growth in the Australian economy, the slowness of the non-mining sector to fill up the big hole left by mining and job cut announcements... here ...

Telstra Super appoints GM from UniSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
Telstra Super has appointed a new general manager, operations. Kathryn Forrest will join Telstra Super in January 2016. She was previously national manager, employer relationships at UniSuper. "We are delighted that Kathryn will be joining us. She brings ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 ...

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
So here we are. After month after month after month of speculating the 'when' of lift-off, it's finally coming. As fate or coincidence would have it, 16 December marks the beginning and now the coming end of the US Federal Reserve's near zero interest ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
Financial markets have been eagerly awaiting (and rubbing their palms at the same time) this meeting - the 3 December ECB Governing Council meeting - ever since the ECB President promised at his 22 October press conference in Malta that, "The degree ...