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BOQ CEO resigns for overseas role

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
BOQ chief executive Stuart Grimshaw will depart the bank at the end of August to pursue a non-banking opportunity outside Australia. Chief operating officer Jon Sutton will take over as acting chief executive from 1 September 2014. The Board is currently ...

Challenger pinches account managers from AMP

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Challenger has appointed two executives from AMP Capital to join its key account team following strong sales and growth in funds. Angela MacPherson and Anna Schofield joined Challenger in July as national key account managers, reporting to general manager ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
..."but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down" (continued from yesterday's blurb). Small and almost flat they may be, but gains in the major indices were enough to take Wall Street up again after getting knocked down the previous day through ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following the lead of Wall Street which fell amid anxiety about a correction and worries that the conflict in Ukraine could worsen. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
"We think it's a significant package... Are we finished? The answer is no." "The Governing Council decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." ...

Unmet SMSF advice needs a boon for advisers

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
More than 286,000 self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have unmet advice needs, representing a huge opportunity for financial advisers, according to new research from Investment Trends. SMSFs who say they have unmet advice needs are prepared to pay up to ...

PineBridge launches DAA fund

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
A leading Australian public sector state fund has seeded the PineBridge Global Dynamic Absolute Return Fund. The global multi-asset class investment manager's first Australian managed fund adopts a dynamic asset allocation (DAA) investment approach ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...

ASIC puts an end to PIS monitoring program

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
The adviser monitoring program for Professional Investment Services (PIS) has concluded with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) reporting "a significant improvement in its compliance and audit functions." The Centrepoint-owned ...

Passive FUM reaches all-time high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
Funds allocated to index strategies grew 28% in the 12 months to end of March 2014, taking the total proportion of the funds management market it represents to a record high of 19%, new data from Rainmaker Information reveals. The rise is the fastest ...