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PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
South African financial services firm PPS has launched PPS Mutual in Australia, providing access to a retail life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... illiquid assets is occurring as they reduce their allocations in equities. Investors based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are limiting their exposure to cash and fixed income, while increasing their exposure to real estate and other real ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... billion today to more than 11 billion by 2100. This new population will be heavily skewed by growth in the Middle East and Africa, where the UN Population Division expects populations to grow by 72% and 305%. "Asia and Latin America, once considered ...

CommInsure appoints life head from Macquarie

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
CommInsure has appointed a new head of life product and strategy. Sally Phillips will leave Macquarie Life, where she is divisional director and head of underwriting, claims and insurance proposition, to take on the role. Prior to Macquarie, she was ...

MetLife reports 61pct global earnings slump

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... quarterly plan." Earnings in the Americas were the weakest, down 18% on the previous quarter; Europe, the Middle East and Africa decreased by 15%, while Asian earnings increased by 9%.

AMG to take Abax stake

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... "The addition of Abax will enhance the diversity and breadth of AMG's existing product set, and from its base in South Africa, the firm is well-positioned to benefit from the region's outstanding growth prospects. "We have deep respect for the experience ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... (Business Dictionary.com). China should have left the digging and the mining to Australia and Brazil and Canada and South Africa et al and focused instead on producing products where it has comparative advantage, such as knock-offs (just kidding Pres ...

Key executives depart ANZ ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... traded funds (ETF) sector for the last nine years. He was most recently head of capital markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Invesco Powershares.

IRESS sees profit in wealth management

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... regulatory requirements. Australian wealth management performed strongly, and significant growth was delivered in South Africa," Walsh said. Operating revenue in the UK, excluding enterprise lending, was down 2% to UK$20.3 million compared to the first ...

Investec fund acquires Brisbane property

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Investec Australia Property Fund (IAPF) has acquired an $18.15 million property in a Brisbane industrial suburb. The acquisition, which is fully funded with debt, brings the value of the fund's total portfolio to $379.45 million and the fund's gearing ...