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Sydney in top 10 financial centres

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Australian superannuation funds are stepping in to fill a funding gap for property development left by the big four banks' increased capital requirements, according to a specialist capital provider. Real estate investment management firm Qualitas, which ...

Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... facing higher trading costs and changes to business relationships that are hurting margins in the wake of new regulations on banks and prime brokers, a new global survey of the industry by EY reveals. Regulations such as Basel III and Dodd-Frank have ...

Retail super members gouged by $7.1bn: ISA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... bank-owned super funds $783 million a year since 2006 or $7.1 billion from 2006 to 2014. "The APRA research suggests that banks are boosting other parts their business by paying above market rates for superannuation services. This appears to be coming ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... 11.3%). Now what? Now what is, yuan appreciation here we come. According to Bloomberg, "That move is set to prompt central banks and reserve managers to increase their allocation, buying hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of the currency" and, "For ...

New super transparency rules spark controversy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... Whiteley: "Australians will remain none the wiser about underlying costs charged by superannuation investment platforms run by banks and insurers, under new disclosure requirements." He noted that "a special carve-out has been provided for 'platform-based' ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... between 2.7% and 2.93% on 20 November 2015. XTBs are now on offer over bonds from listed companies in the following sectors - banks, mining, property, transport and infrastructure, entertainment, manufacturing, telecommunications, airlines, airports ...

New mobile broking platform launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... solution is the first of its kind in Australia and its sophisticated trading services, which were once the preserve of the big banks, are being offered at a price point small and medium-sized brokers can afford. These services can also be white labelled ...

PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... moved on to become the state manager for Queensland: "That was across our planners that operated in both retail and business banks throughout the state." "We started with a very deep analytic of customer preferences," he continues, "looking at their ...

Advice M&A deals boom after years of stagnation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... more waiting." Prendeville explained that the situation is changing rapidly after years of stagnation. Before 2014, "big banks were buying everything that was on the market." But when the Commonwealth Financial Planning scandal broke in 2014, they stopped ...