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Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... oil, precious metals, base metals - rises as the value of the US dollar falls. Notable beneficiaries are Australia, South Africa, Russia and the OPEC countries. America, itself, will benefit. US exporters would become more competitive in the international ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... holdings followed by Samsung Electronics in South Korea, China Mobile and Taiwan Semiconductor. While Brazil and South Africa were identified for their good work on ESG, survey participants said the biggest challenge of investing in emerging markets ...

AXA recruits 13 overseas planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
AXA Australia is taking its financial planning recruitment drive overseas, adding 13 planners from South Africa and the UK to the dealer group. Paul Williams, national manager for AXA Financial Planning and Charter Financial Planning, said the firm ...

IOOF quadruples platform reach after Skandia buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Financial services group IOOF climbs through the ranks of platforms with the largest share of the non-aligned adviser market when it acquired Skandia Australia and Intech, a move that quadruples its slice of the sub-segment and adds more than $8 billion ...

Former BHP chief makes history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... best known for transforming debt-ridden BHP company back in 1999 into the world's largest miner when it merged with South Africa's Billiton in 2001. The merged company grew from US$12 billion to about US$200 billion under his tenure.

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... economy also turns to Scrooge. News overnight shows that manufacturing in the US, the Eurozone, China, Russia and South Africa are shrinking. More will follow. Ghost of Christmas Past. Low interest rates and lax lending standards encouraged banks/financial ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South Africa will take more prominence in the future. Speaking through a video link, President Ramos-Horta used his welcome address to ...

RBC Dexia scores two

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
RBC Dexia Investor Services has scored two mandates with international fund managers Investec Asset Management and Vontobel Asset Management. US-based Vontobel Asset Management has engaged RBC Dexia to provide custody, fund administration, shareholder ...

Atom joins SII global group

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
South Africa's second largest wealth management group, Sanlam International Investments (SII), has established an Australia-Pacific beach head through its acquisition of Atom Funds Management, a niche Australian boutique small-cap investment manager. ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macquarie Life appointed Sally Phillips as head of underwriting and claims. Previously, Phillips founded one of South Africa's top five life insurance firm's, Discovery Life, and held the role of chief medical officer and head of underwriting within ...