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BNP custody and settlement service goes live

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012

Mariner launches Austock takeover bid

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... board of Austock will do with the company now that the broking business has been sold." Austock sold its struggling securities business to Intersuisse Holdings in March this year, which then rebadged the company as Octa Philip. Austock's business units ...

New accountants' licence hailed as win for affordable advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... provide financial advice on SMSFs and 'class of product advice' on basic deposit products, general and life insurance, securities, and simple managed investment schemes. The new licence does not, however, allow specific product recommendations but is ...

HSBC launches online trading platform

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... $15,000 and provide share market analysis, commentary and company information from various sources including Bell Potter Securities and Morningstar. The HSBC Online Share Trading Account links directly to the customers HSBC transaction account. Arnie ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... now afflicting its economy. Deja vu the third. News that the European Central Bank (ECB) is expanding the range of securities and lowering the ratings threshold - down to BBB- from A- -- it'll accept as collateral in exchange for cash would keep market ...

MLC property fund faces leadership change

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
MLC global property securities fund portfolio manager Stuart Keighran is stepping down, according to research house Standard & Poor's. Keighran will relinquish his portfolio management responsibilities to Jonathan Armitage, head of equities and Australian ...

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... including diversity or alternative asset classes, long-term themes and systematic risk premia that use real estate securities and specialist infrastructure strategies to create liquid diversity and capture non-market cap weighted equities. Craig Baker ...

PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... high-net worth individuals about its newest fund dedicated entirely to the former pariah state of Myanmar. With a local securities exchange not due to launch until 2015 (to be built with assistance of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Daiwa Securities Group) ...

ALI penalised after compliance failures

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has imposed additional compliance conditions on Sydney-based insurance group, Australian Life Insurance Distribution Pty Ltd for failing to comply with a number of its obligations as an Australian financial ...

ASIC issues short PDS guidance

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued guidance for issuers of superannuation products and simple managed investment schemes about how to comply with the shorter product disclosure statement regime. The shorter Products ...