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NAS provides new corporate actions service

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
National Australia Bank Asset Servicing (NAS) has launched a new service allowing clients to access near real-time corporate actions announced by the issuers of ASX quoted securities. NAS, the largest custodian in Australia, believes the new service ...

Financial services fail to share mental health data

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Two-thirds of listed financial services companies are failing to disclose important data for measuring employee mental health against wider standards. According to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), only a third ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Managed funds discount broker InvestSMART has launched a free direct-to-consumer "robo-advice" tool. The tool allows consumers to input their existing assets (if any), answer questions on desired outcomes and time horizons and then compare available ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
It could be because we've been beating down on ourselves too much, too often and for so long that others think they come and have a go at us, Australians all, too. I was literally ROFL-ing when I read this piece from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

Big four prepared for APRA capital adequacy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Australia's big four banks have commented on APRA's announcement that it would increase capital adequacy requirements for residential mortgage exposures. APRA's change means that the risk weight on residential mortgage exposures for Australian deposit-taking ...

Lonsec recommends BetaShares' Nasdaq ETF

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Lonsec has given BetaShares' Nasdaq 100 ETF a Recommended rating. It's the first ETF listed on the ASX which tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, and was launched in May. Lonsec recommended it based on its ability to give Australian retail investors access ...

ACSI targets male-dominated boards

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has written to the chairs of over 30 ASX 200 companies regarding the lack of female representation on their boards. The goal was to remind these companies - which either had just one female director ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
A growing number of direct investors will drive an increase in demand for financial advice, the latest ASX Share Ownership Study revealed. The study showed that Australians continue to be among the world's largest share owners, with 36% or 6.48 million ...