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Ascot Securities makes key wealth and institutional hires

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Ascot Securities has strengthened its wealth advisory and institutional teams with six appointments. Joining the wealth advisory side of the business is Sean Sandilands, Timothy Radford and Henry Fung. Sandilands has more than 20 years' experience in ...

Macquarie merges businesses, exec departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
Macquarie has merged two of its three capital markets facing businesses. The bank has combined Macquarie Securities Group (MSG) and the Commodities and Financial Markets Group (CFM), now forming the Commodities and Global Markets Group (CGM). Macquarie ...

IFM expands into Hong Kong

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... owned by 29 Australian not-for-profit super funds, has opened a Hong Kong office and been granted a licence from the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. The new office complements IFM's existing operations in Melbourne, Sydney, New York ...

Listed infrastructure has winners and losers

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... how diverse the asset class is, toppled with the lack of a commonly accepted benchmark. In its recent Infrastructure Securities Sector Review, Lonsec Research showed significant dispersion in returns across infrastructure sub-sectors, throwing up a number ...

BlackRock to combine insto and retail distribution teams

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... BlackRock Australia has merged its institutional and retail distribution teams and made senior hires from Vanguard, FIIG Securities, Rothschild and BT Financial Group. Following the merger of the two teams, Jason Collins has taken on an expanded role ...

JPMorgan Chase to pay bribery fines

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay more than US$130 million to settle charges brought against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after winning business from clients and corruptly influencing government officials in Asia Pacific by ...

Charter Hall exec joins Link board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... than 30 years' experience in wealth management. Gupta co-founded and served as the inaugural chief executive of IPAC Securities and is also a non-executive director across a range of commercial, public sector and not-for-profit boards including that ...

Life insurance revenues down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... policies in superannuation to a new super fund in July. Overall, total assets were split across equities (44.1%), debt securities (38.5%), investment properties (5.5%) and cash and deposits (4.4%). Elsewhere, net profit after tax also took a dive, down ...

Former adviser receives jail sentence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... lender to provide him with margin loans On 67 different occasions gained a benefit for himself by fraudulently lodging securities owned by clients as collateral for the margin loans without client authorisation. As a result of his actions Wise dishonestly ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... said. Historically, in the first quarter after the election, the S&P 500 had dropped an average of 7.6% pa, an ETF Securities analysis found. With the market capitalisation of US equities now sitting at more than A$25 trillion (more than half the world's ...