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Blue Sky profits underscore alternatives opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Blue Sky Alternative Investments reported a 97% boost in statutory net profit after tax to $20.7 million in its annual results, an outcome managing director Robert Shand believes underpins the firm's value proposition to clients looking for opportunities ...

Leadership changes at UBS NZ

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
UBS Investment Bank's head of New Zealand is stepping back from daily operations after 20 years with the company. After serving as country head for about seven years, Nicholas Ross will remain with UBS New Zealand supporting specific origination and ...

Avoid the ETF trap: Bell Direct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
Online trading platform Bell Direct is warning investors to avoid the "ETF trap", as the move to passive strategies gains substantial pace and inflows reach all-time highs. Bell Direct chief executive Arnie Selvarajah said that for many investors passive ...

Macquarie and Canadian pension fund buy SA government asset

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
The Land Services SA consortium, made up of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, has secured South Australia's land services and lands titles office for $1.6 billion. Macquarie, in conjunction ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
I'll see your "fire and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament ...

Life insurer surpasses code of conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
TAL is going above and beyond the minimum requirements of the life insurance code of conduct and calling others in the industry to follow suit. The life insurer is applying the code's minimum medical definitions for cancer, heart attack and stroke in ...

Class and Countplus partner

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Software provider Class inked a partnership with accounting and financial advice network Countplus for the provision of self-managed super funds and wealth accounting software. Countplus practices will now have access to centralised billing and supporting ...

Fatigue and profit-based incentives driving risk culture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Unreasonable levels of work and a need for greater automation of processes could be to blame for heightened risk culture in the financial services sector, according to FINSIA. The industry body's analyses of a study conducted by Macquarie University ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...