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Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... also engages with the issue through events such as its upcoming Women in Financial Planning Lunch which is taking place in Sydney later this month. Tibergien finished by urging advisers not assume that the clients of today are going to be the clients ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... 0.22 per cent higher, adding 4.38 points to 1,975.62, while Shanghai gained 0.32 per cent, or 6.49 points, to 2,059.58. Sydney closed flat, edging down 0.33 points to 5,445.9 and in the afternoon Hong Kong was up 0.53 per cent. WELLINGTON - The benchmark ...

Insync Fund Management appoints senior analyst

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Insync Fund Management, an independently owned global equity manager based in Sydney, has appointed Nitesh Patel as a senior investment analyst and assistant portfolio manager. Patel works within Insync's flagship international equities fund, Global ...

AIA launches fitness program available via advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... will be sold to clients who purchase an insurance policy via financial advisers. The AIA Vitality program was launched in Sydney this morning at the Incentivising a Healthier Australia national forum. The Vitality program has more than five million members ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... quarter... not much else. Let's playback Lloyd Blankfein's -- chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs - comments at a Sydney business breakfast last July.A When asked about his view on the Australian economy, Blankfein replied, "No, it's awful...You've ...

AMP becomes outright owner of NAB House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund (AWOF) will acquire the 25% interest in NAB House at 255 George Street, Sydney, bringing its stake in the office tower to 100%. National Australia Bank (NAB) remains the main tenant of the building. AMP Capital wholesale ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... market, while oil prices fell back after hitting multi-month highs. Tokyo rose 0.47 per cent, or 69.25 points, to 14,721.48, Sydney added 0.29 per cent, or 15.9 points, to close at 5,400.2 and Hong Kong ended 0.70 per cent higher, adding 156.96 points ...

Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... New South Wales professor RenA(C)e Adams has found. Adams, who was speaking at the Platypus Asset Management Symposium in Sydney, looked at the short term effect in market performance of all ASX200 director appointments from 2009 to 2011. "The market ...

AFA Plan For Life - Life Company Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... award the best life companies of the year in eight different categories. The 9th edition of the event will take place in Sydney on March 12 and recognises the life companies' product and service quality levels, and the extent to which they understand ...

Standard Life Inv steps up shareholder activism

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... pay policy. In its latest annual review of governance and stewardship Standard Life Investments, which has an office in Sydney, said it is determined to play its part in promoting best practice as the global governance landscape changes, and the rights ...