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WA planning firm moves east

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... planning firms are set to face even more competition after Western Australian advice group, Indian Ocean Capital, announced plans to expand into NSW. Indian Ocean Capital is made up of 14 financial advisors in Western Australia and plans to increase ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... banks' loans and investments in the east. In Asia, with no more room to move on monetary policy, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) plans to expand measures to advance corporate funding by outright purchases A-rated corporate bonds held by banks. This is a step ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Personal loans? Reading through the news reports, I noticed very minimal criticism of Obama's fresh initiative or any of his plans for that matter. Political correctness, it seems, has gone all the way to the top. But perhaps the financial markets have ...

ING wins $270m QBE mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... million default corporate super fund. According to ING, the new mandate will combine QBE's three separate superannuation plans under one umbrella. QBE's main fund has approximately $270 million in assets under management and over 3,000 members. The other ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... also be outlining a plan to help stem mortgage foreclosures on Wednesday. Wall Street had eagerly awaited the government's plans to help the economy, but now that the programs have become reality, it is realising the effects will not be immediate. In ...

BNY Mellon launches Ankura Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... that will ride on the bank's 34-country strong distribution network to attract overseas money. BNY Mellon Asset Management plans to use its global distribution network to offer Ankura Capital, its newly launched domestic equities product, to local and ...

DC plans to axe managers

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... retirement income adequacy. The Callan's 2009 Defined Contribution Trends Survey: Impact of Recent Market Volatility on DC Plans was fielded online in late November and early December last year. Results were garnered from 107 US-based DC plan sponsors ...

BNY Mellon to ramp up Asia and Aus presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Fund manager and asset servicing firm BNY Mellon plans to increase its manufacturing base in Asia, including Australia, and the launch of its domestic equities fund Ankura Capital is just the beginning of an expansion plan in the year ahead. Visiting ...

Challenger commits to annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... November last year "reaffirmed [Challenger's] commitment to the market". "We believe annuities have a clear place in retirement plans and see opportunities to develop products to meet demand. "We... expect there will be further opportunities to expand ...