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Super's growth a challenge for ASIC: Medcraft

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
Superannuation's growth over the next decade is one of the biggest challenges facing Australia's corporate regulator, said ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft. As the size of the superannuation sector expands to $3 trillion over the next decade, the extra products ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... fore. Eyes are also on the start this week in China of the Communist Party's 18th congress, which will see a once-in-a-decade leadership transition. Tokyo on Tuesday softened 0.36 per cent, or 32.29 points, to 8,975.15, Seoul rose 1.05 per cent, or 19.95 ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... and selling at today's market value would crystallise shareholder losses. But NAB's investors have already put up with a decade a sub-standard returns. "NAB's situation is a bit like the guy who bought a work of art and is waiting for the painter to ...

Huge opportunity is higher risk recovery stocks: Southeastern

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
A flight to safety brought about ongoing investor uncertainty in the wake of the GFC means that a wealth of well managed, competitively entrenched and soundly financed companies can be bought at a significant discount to their intrinsic value, according ...

Aligned or independent: Advisers must be relevant

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Whether advisers choose to stand-alone or stand-aligned, they're both confronted with developing an advice model that resonates with the disparate needs of clients. That was the overarching sentiment a group of industry practitioners shared with delegates ...

BNP Paribas appoints relationship management head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Katherine Seymour as head of head of relationship management for its 'asset owner' clients in Australia, it was announced yesterday. Seymour assumes responsibility for the team managing relationships and ...

BOQ not a takeover target: Grimshaw

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) is not a takeover target, and the worst is behind it, said its chief executive, after the bank became the first in two decades to post a loss. Stuart Grimshaw, BOQ chief executive officer, denied speculation that the bank would ...

Chinese small-and-mid caps undervalued

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... volatility of Asian equities, which for some masks their long-term value, to the Asian financial crash that occurred a decade ago, when small and mid cap stocks under performed in the liquidity rush that followed - but have outperformed over the past ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... look at their exposures this time around. Fleming admitted: "Government debt to GDP has almost doubled through the past decade and is still meaningfully increasing. The fiscal cliff awaits later this year. Only the appetiser in global deleveraging has ...

CFSGAM bullish on listed infrastructure

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
Investors are encouraged to put their money in listed infrastructure as it offers a higher rate of returns than bonds and cash in the current low growth economic environment, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM). CFSGAM's ...