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New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

ASIC call to improve planner education

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... They included a financial services competency certification exam for all new and existing financial advisers who provide Tier 1 financial advice at the entry stage. One year supervision for all new financial advisers following entry stage and a mandatory ...

Smaller banks seeking platform independence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
Second tier banks are increasingly looking to sever ties with their larger rivals in favour of independent investment platform providers, according to the chief executive of Melbourne based Powerwrap. Tasmania's MyState Financial has signed a deal with ...

Funds join forces for Asian growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... companies are very expensive but being a specialist investment manager we can do that. We're looking at second, third and fourth tier cities rather than first tier," said Steele. Atom founders Drew Wilson and David Shearwood are selling their stakes ...

No $900 slug for planners: FPA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... in the advertising campaigns as the "gold standard", if she did not apply for the category she would drop down to a second tier. Rantall said the organisation was holding 32 roadshows around the country to explain the changes, with details available ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... entire capital in level one or level two assets, with at least 4 per cent in level one. This is actually referring to the tier one and tier two prudential capital requirements and not the liquidity requirements. We apologise for the error.

IOOF profits surge 22 pc

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... structure, more intimate," he said. The company was prolific and successful, and was fast becoming the leader in the second tier of a bifurcated market, where the first tier contains banks. IOOF, formed in 1846, told investors it would continue to grow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... slipped 0.03 per cent to 7,320.90 points and the Paris CAC 40 dipped 0.43 per cent to 4,090.74 points. On London's second-tier FTSE 250 index, the London Stock Exchange saw its share price rocket at first before settling down to a a three per cent rise ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Perpetual raises $170 million for mortgage fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... approximately 40 per cent of total lending to the sector, and financing from alternative sources such as foreign banks and second tier lenders is also disappearing," he said. "This has become a significantly dislocated market and we saw an opportunity ...