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Christian Super appoints State Street as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Christian Super has appointed State Street as its custodian, it was announced today. State Street will provide fund accounting, unit pricing, taxation services, investment mandate monitoring and investment analytics. Peter Murphy, chief executive of ...

Westpac calm in face of storm

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... much stronger as a result. While NAB faces years carrying the can for its ailing UK business and ANZ chief executive Mike Smith bemoans a tough economic outlook and the threat of looming bad debts, Westpac appears to be in ruder health. Excluding a one-off ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... index futures contract was two points lower at 4,443 points, with 8,656 contracts traded. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said there would not be much life in the market over the coming days, ahead of the US elections and a Melbourne Cup day ...

Investors more satisfied with SMSF than pooled funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Satisfaction with the self-managed super funds (SMSFs) remains considerably higher than that of retail and industry funds, according to the latest Roy Morgan Superannuation Satisfaction report shows. SMSFs can boast 64% satisfaction while industry funds ...

Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Westpac's full-year statutory net profit has fallen 15% to $5.97 billion owing to a one-off tax benefit last year. The tax gain is related to the bank's takeover of St George, which pushed last year's profit artificially higher and made this year's ...

Equity Trustees appoints new business development exec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Equity Trustees Limited (EQT) has appointed Alex Keen as key account manager for New South Wales. Before joining EQT, Keen was business development manager for Australian Unity Investments, representing its property business and joint venture partners ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Whatever the outcome of the US election, the President will have to face up to fiscal cliff or jeopardise the global recovery, according to Standard Life Investment's Andrew Milligan. With both presidential candidates rounding the final corner of their ...

Lend Lease appoints managing director

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Lend Lease, a listed property construction and project management group, has appointed Kylie Rampa as managing director for its Australian investment management business. In this role Kylie will oversee the group's $8.8 billion Australian funds management ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Competition for business amid the rapid growth of the SMSF industry is in danger of diluting the quality of service for the end client, according to a number of industry professionals. India-based Sundaram Business Services has been operating in Australia ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
It could take years before NAB's 'worthless' UK banking business is restored to anything approaching a reasonable sale price. That is according to Elio D'Amato, chief executive of stock market solutions provider Lincoln Indicators. The underperformance ...