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Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Trust Company is expanding its responsible entity (RE) business to attract mandates from international investors and in a separate move, is placing its financial planning arm under a strategic review. John Atkins, who took on the role of managing director ...

Joint Committee has consumer loans in its sights

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' inquiry into financial products and services will include a review of banking products. Reflecting the transfer of oversight of consumer finance to the Commonwealth, which will ...

APRA declares hand on unlisted asset valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
APRA has unveiled how unlisted assets should be valued in light of the current markets and broke away from tradition when it outlined what it considers as 'bad practice'. "Valuations of 'appraisal based' assets can have a critical impact on members ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Commodities is the new asset class in the Securitor Select Blend Portfolios. Pat Farrell, head of BT Investment Solutions and a speaker at last week's Securitor conference in Darwin, said commodities were included as an asset class of its own in the ...

HSBC appoints Davis as Indian CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
HSBC has appointed HSBC Bank Australia chief executive, Stuart Davis, as chief executive of the group's operations in India but leaves the Australian role empty. Davis' replacement will be announced "shortly" a statement from the firm said. Meanwhile ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
The political and financial nightmare facing Australian financial institutions in their long-time captive market of Fiji is getting worse by the day. They look to have little choice but to co-operate with harsh new regulations imposed on them by the ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Lonsec has reinstated HFA Asset Management's International Shares fund 'recommended' rating. The fund had been on 'fund watch' since January 20 because of "uncertainty surrounding the parent company, HFA Holdings". Those concerns have since been allayed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on Wednesday following falls on Wall Street after a weak retail sales report punctured the market's optimism about the economy. At 0702 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas after crude oil prices slid overnight and US stocks ended mostly higher. At 0722 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was steady at 3,722. In economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open in negative territory as Wall Street plunged over two per cent overnight. At 0706 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 50 points at 3,690. In economic news on Tuesday ...