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Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... soon be the case that a change in the target range could be warranted at any meeting." Overall, there was nothing new, no big surprises. Just a rehash of the reiteration of the repetition of recent Fed messages. The Fed will say when... ahead of time ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... hit another new seven year high, boosted by what investors considered a good financial result from BHP Billiton despite a big drop in the global miner's profit. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 19.0 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 5,927 points. The broader ...

Big four banks missing out on customer wealth management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... to leakage to the SMSF sector and industry funds. "With superannuation being the major component of wealth management, the big banks are facing tough competition from the trend to self-managed super, industry funds and other specialist providers," Morris ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... following the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) 28-29 October meeting. Perhaps, markets are on hold while awaiting the next big thing coming our way tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - and her name is Janet. The Fed Chairman will be testifying ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group risk insurers grew their collective market share from 67% as at June 2013 to 73% as at June 2014. At the same time ...

NAB custody executive general manager departs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... of super fund clients, including TWUSUPER, QSuper, Sunsuper and Cbus, who have left NAS in favour of global custodians with big international footprints. NAB has announced in July 2014 that it was looking to partially sell its custody business. But was ...

Super only 35% of retirement nest egg

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Australians don't believe that superannuation will provide adequately for their retirement and expect that it will contribute a little more than one third of their retirement nest egg, ING Direct research revealed. Superannuation is expected to represent ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
The stock market is flat after giving back early gains made by the big banks. The local market opened higher following gains on Wall Street amid optimism on Greek debt talks. CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner said banks were amongst the leading ...

Macquarie Funds Group rebrands, increases FUM by $30 billion

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Australia's biggest global asset manager, Macquarie Funds Group, has rebranded as Macquarie Asset Management and increased its funds under management (FUM) by $30 billion in the three months to 31 December 2014, as reported in the Macquarie Group 2015 ...

OPINION: The Achilles heel of unbundled services

DARREN SPEIRS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... specialise in data feed aggregation are helping trustees and advis ors overcome the fixed, 'take or leave it' data formats of the big players by taking care of the integration and providing the end user with a single, palatable data solution. On the ...