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New entrants drive growth in global equities sector

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Over the past 12 months the global equities sector has seen the highest number of new entrants since before the onset of the global financial crisis, a report by investment research house Lonsec Research (Lonsec) has revealed. Lonsec's Global Equities ...

Custodians fight hard for big super deals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Custodians are fiercely competing to win the business of Australia's largest superannuation funds, with some trading in short-term commercial gain in exchange for strategic long-term deals. One method of doing this is by offering so-called 'fee holidays' ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index dampened slightly during March to return 12.6%, pointing to 2013-14 being on-track to be another double-digit performance year. The March 12 month performance figure is, however, down ...

Macquarie Bank names managing director

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Mary Reemst will replace Greg Ward as managing director and chief executive of Macquarie Bank from 1 July. Reemst has been with the company for 15 years and is currently head of credit in the risk management group, a role she has held for the past 11 ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Phew! That was close. No Virginia, we didn't hear this sigh of relief from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the ...

YBR adds 13 branches to its network

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has increased its distribution footprint to 197 branches across Australia, with 13 new additions in the first quarter of 2014. The group signed its first agreement in the Northern Territory and opened a retail branch in Melbourne ...

MetLife to make 32 appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
MetLife will open a Melbourne office, with plans to hire more than 30 new staffers across claims, product and pricing, client relationship and finance. "MetLife is strongly committed to the group insurance segment in Australia and to life insurance ...

BetaShares passes $1bn milestone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
ETF provider BetaShares has surpassed $1 billion in funds under management (FUM), three and a half years after launching its first products in the Australian market. Reaching the milestone cements the firm as Australia's fourth largest ETF manager by ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street higher, with the Dow Jones reaching a new record after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was picking up after a winter slowdown. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
No surprise, no surprise. Another month... another US$10 billion off the Fed's asset shopping budget and more stressing that interest rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's ...