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QSuper number one for member satisfaction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
QSuper has the most satisfied members of any superannuation fund in the country, according to a new report by Engaged Marketing. The 2014/15 Superannuation Benchmarking Study also found that QSuper members were most likely to recommend the fund. The ...

BNP Paribas top custodian for client satisfaction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... particular challenges posed in areas such as corporate actions, tax reclamation and cash management." It said that single-country operators had previously been at a disadvantage, but that this trend had halted in 2014. It put this down to "the success ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... the Russian debt default in 1998. It was the dollar-A's drop from around US$0.65 in early 2000 to US$0.49 that saved the country from the 2001 US recession (and September 11). It was the dollar-A's drop from around US$0.97 in July 2008 to US$0.62 four ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie joined Lonsec in early 2000, when it employed three analysts and provided research only to the Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... lowered the premium for Arab Light relative to U.S. Gulf Coast by 45 cents a barrel to the least since December". Which OPEC country would cry, "me too", me three"? Why don't they just do what they've been doing before - cheat on their quotas? At least ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... cent, adding 755.56 points to 16,413.76 - its highest since November 2007 - with buying further boosted by a report that country's vast national pension fund would double its domestic equities holdings. The index is now in positive territory for the ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Another research commissioned by Zurich Financial Services Australia show more than one third of financial advisers in the country use social media to share information or connect with clients on a more personal level. Dunkerley said, "As the use of ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Rousseff assumed the presidency in January 2011, inflation has risen and along with it, interest rates. Annual growth in the country's GDP has slowed from the mid to high digits of 2010 to minus 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014. Slowing growth could ...

UK advice giant deVere enters Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... advantage of all the associated benefits a robust international organisation is able to offer," said Green. The company said a country manager for deVere Australia will be appointed imminently.

Industry needs unified solution to insurance "failure": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... reputational damage." Despite this, Kell said that ASIC does not have "the resources to review all life insurers in the country. "We took a representative sample of small, medium and large firms and advisers from those firms." When asked about the consequences ...