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Zurich continues Investments restructure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... overseeing relationships with both retail and institutional partners, along with fund managers and investment research houses. He will also focus on generating distribution opportunities for investment products. Formerly senior investments specialist ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... companies going bankrupt or about to, workers getting the pink slip or going to, mortgages being higher than the value of houses, etcetera. And because of these, households are saving instead of spending. Households are bracing themselves for tough times ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
Bernanke, houses and confidence (or the lack of it) sent many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was them! They were the ones that sent a many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was Bernanke. In an interview ...

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 ...