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David Kiddie resurfaces at BNP Paribas UK

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
Former AMP Capital chief investment officer David Kiddie has been appointed chief executive officer of BNP Paribas Investment Partners' (BNPP IP) Institutional Business Line. Kiddie, who is British, left AMP Capital in December last year after four ...

ASIC cancels two more AFSL licences

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of a Parramatta insurance broker and of Banksia Mortgages. The Parramatta-based WD Gelle Insurance & Finance Brokers' licence ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
JANA Investment Advisers (JANA) has awarded a $385 million global equity mandate Los Angeles-based asset manager Causeway Capital Management. Specifically, the mandate was awarded to Causeway's developed markets large-cap strategy Global Value Equity. ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
With the deadline now closed for submissions to the Financial System Inquiry, the first investigation into the sector in 16 years, Financial Standard investigates the big themes, the surprises and what has been missed amongst the more than 250 publicly ...

Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Challenger has continued to grow its lifetime annuities business, with sales more than doubling in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the prior corresponding period (PCP). Overall, Challenger Life's annuity sales - including lifetime and fixed annuities ...

Premium increases boost life risk inflows 11.5%

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Overall life insurance risk market inflows increased by 11.5% during 2013, following major retail and group insurers' decision to increase premiums rates to face the industry's challenges. Total inflows were $12,796.6 million for the year ended December ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
A recent high-profile book criticising high frequency trading (HFT) has been branded 'nonsense' by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) with the group urging regulators not to respond to the scaremongering. The research body has released ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after decisive rises on Wall Street following better-than-expected retail sales figures. At 0800 AEST on Tuesday the June share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 5,370. US March retail sales ...

PM Capital eyes Asia fund listing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Equity fund manager PM Capital is set to list its Asian Opportunities Fund on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The initial public offering is the second of its kind for the group after the successful launch of its first listed investment company ...

Perpetual jettisons Guardian Trust

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
Perpetual has sold The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company to Complectus for NZ$68.5 million ($63.3 million). The move follows Perpetual's December 2013 acquisition of The Trust Company which owned Guardian Trust. Perpetual said The New Zealand business ...