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IMCA Australia launches CIMA Scholarship Program

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... and Portfolio Construction Forum will be providing two scholarships specifically for analysts within retail fund research houses, platforms, 'manage the managers' fund managers, financial planning firms and family offices. Applications close 16 April ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... financial markets and the optimism that it engenders could give Greece - and Portugal and Italy and Spain - time to get their houses in order. This is the same hope expressed by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last night. While he thinks ...

AFS launches mobile platform for advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... advisers, [it] improves communication with head office through easy access to research from the leading international research houses, AFS product videos, live streaming of economic and share market news, calendar sharing and lots more," Daly said, referring ...

Hayes to leave Perennial, Kivell replaces

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... head of Australian real estate securities at Macquarie Funds Management. Both Standard and Poor's (S&P) and Zenith ratings houses are reviewing Perennial funds as a result of this departure, with S&P placing the Perennial Australian Property Trust 'On ...

Retail and insto teams combine to drive strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... institutionalised groups. Better servicing this new form of retail client in addition to organisations, such as ratings houses, that influence product selection was a key factor in Perpetual Limited's retail distribution restructure in December. The ...

Perpetual changes distribution focus

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
Perpetual Limited is set to readjust its focus on the retail funds market, research and ratings houses through changes to its investment product distribution function in order to overcome past challenges in its distribution. Due to a company-wide review ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... million units (the highest since Bush's cash for clunkers program). Increasingly confident American consumers are buying houses. Sales of new homes rose by 1.3% to an annualised rate of 307,000 units from 303,000 in September and 282,000 in the same ...

FOFA Tranche 2 reforms tabled in Parliament today

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... parliament this morning, gaining industry support and reinforcing the Government's speed to move these reforms through both houses. Included in the Tranche 2 Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms are the banning of conflicted remuneration payments ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available today

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... feature the introduction of MySuper legislation, a review of the recent ASFA conference and proposed regulations for ratings houses. For all the latest industry news, views and regular features download the app today. Financial Standard's latest edition ...

Political debate defers FOFA clarity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... for both chambers of parliament, it seems increasingly unlikely that the proposed FOFA legislation will pass through both houses before Christmas. Added to this is the fact that the government has yet to bring the second tranche of reforms before MPs ...