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CBA dismisses Murray's concerns over vertical integration

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Ian Narev dismissed concerns expressed by the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) interim report that Australia's big institutions control both the manufacturing and distribution of financial products. "We need to ...

IOOF appoints national technical manager

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Financial services company IOOF has appointed a new national manager, technical services. A long-term participant in the financial services industry Kate Anderson has joined IOOF from Super IQ, where she was the head of technical. In her role Anderson ...

Record profits for Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Standard Life Investments has reported a ten-fold increase in before tax operating profit to a record $190 million for the first half of 2014, up from $15.5 million for the same period last year. Third party inflows of $7.7 billion over the period marked ...

Blue Sky reveals asset allocation of first alternatives LIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has allocated nearly 70% of the $60 million raised for its Alternatives Access Fund into a range of alternative assets including private equity and venture capital, water and agriculture, a hedge fund and private real ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
"Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah, Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,...because I'm happy (Happy)." -- Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' A nice complement to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down but..." when talking about the ...

CBA posts record profit, strong wealth management growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has reported an $8.6 billion net profit after tax for the year ended June 30, 2014, up 12% from last year. The group registered strong growth in its wealth management division, with average funds under administration (excluding) ...

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Administration concerns were largest category of written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) for the June 2014 quarter. Of the complaints received 38.6% related to administration with death benefit complaints making up the second-largest ...

Stan Life Inv GARS added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
The Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Return Strategies Australian Trust is now available via the Macquarie Wrap platform. Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) is a multi-asset strategy, which aims to provide positive returns irrespective ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Curses! I warned him did I not? I warned NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen to shush when he "warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine". Now everybody's onto it - even ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell following disappointing German economic data and ahead of Wednesday's report on US retail sales. At 0804 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up four ...