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Macquarie announces new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Macquarie Group has filled its vacant chairman position. On 31 March 2016, Peter Warne will succeed outgoing chair Kevin McCann, who announced his retirement from the position on September 24. Warne is currently a non-executive director at the group ...

TAL weighs obesity risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Australian life insurer TAL has reviewed the country's increasing prevalence of obesity and has adjusted its premiums accordingly. Premium loadings will now be charged for overweight and obese customers who may have been previously accepted at standard ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has launched its $700 million Aberdeen Alternative Strategies Fund (AASF). By using what Aberdeen described as an "Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) regulated investment structure," the ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
A Macquarie executive responsible for setting up the group's global investments division in Canada has left to join a boutique funds management firm. Perth-based NWQ Capital Management has appointed Stuart McClure as managing director. McClure has over ...

Industry fund competes directly with advice networks

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
An industry superannuation fund has set up a nationwide network of advisers accredited under the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Professional Practice program. UniSuper is the first not-for-profit fund to have all of its advice offices accredited ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Super Thursday. This is the term coined for the Bank of England's (BOE) data dump - announcing the monetary policy committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all ...

Macquarie pays $11m advice compensation so far

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Macquarie Group's comprehensive advice remediation program has paid $11 million to disgruntled advice clients a year after it was put in place. Documents made public by the group prior to the annual general meeting today reveal that, to 30 June 2015 ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
The Glass-Steagall Act that used to require US banking groups to separate their traditional activities from their investment management activities has been re-introduced into the US Senate. The legislation has been sponsored by GOP, Democrat and Independent ...

TAL to invest $150 million in adviser support

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
As part of the insurer's "commitment to advisers," TAL will invest $150 million in adviser support services. Specifically, these include: adviser education programs; online pre-assessment requests for review by TAL underwriters; client insurance data ...

Bank stocks push share market higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
The Australian share market is higher on strong leads from US and European markets, with the big banking stocks performing robustly in morning trade. "Obviously there are positive leads from overseas and gains in some key commodities that are supporting ...