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PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... the business was doomed. More than 10 years later, the platform was still only set up for Australian dollars. "I learned a big lesson about how the objectives your organisation sets you are not as real or urgent as you might be led to believe." In the ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
It could be because we've been beating down on ourselves too much, too often and for so long that others think they come and have a go at us, Australians all, too. I was literally ROFL-ing when I read this piece from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) ...

Market higher despite resources slump

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... the precious metal. But there were gains by Oil Search after its improved full year production forecast, and three of the big four banks. Commonwealth Bank was the only major lender to be lower, down 34 cents at $88.02.

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Advisers may have to recalibrate 'safe' retirement income portfolios in a world of low interest rates - and that may mean blending equity, real and fixed income. That's because when you consider the five-year rate on a typical annuity or term deposit ...

Big four prepared for APRA capital adequacy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Australia's big four banks have commented on APRA's announcement that it would increase capital adequacy requirements for residential mortgage exposures. APRA's change means that the risk weight on residential mortgage exposures for Australian deposit-taking ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Foreign investors can access China through an increasing number of channels. A-shares, H-shares and government bonds are the talk of the town in the world's buzziest financial districts. But there are still risks when investing in such a complex and ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Let's talk about managed accounts

A joke that's done the rounds on managed accounts is that they've been "the next big thing" for two decades running. Launched in the mid-1990s, managed accounts were the sparkly space age pen of investment portfolios. Just one slight hitch - pencils ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are Cbus' appointment of an executive manager of employer experience and a new senior consultant at Towers Watson. Cbus appoints new executive manager - Jarrod Coysh, who was most recently with Westpac, joins the ...

Share market's rally comes to an end

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... high. IG Markets chief markets strategist Chris Weston said investor confidence was returning to global markets. "Some of the big macro concerns are abating which is helping the market," said Chris Weston IG Markets chief markets strategist. But investors ...

ANZ ETFs added to BT, Asgard platforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... platforms now have access to the ANZ ETFS products. As reported in Financial Standard in May, ANZ became the first of Australia's big four banks to provide ETF products when it created a new company, ANZ ETFS Management Limited, with ETF Securities. ...